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Alexander Calder [1898-1976] American

Rank: 108
Sculptor

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
I paint with shapes.	Art	101
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.	Art	102
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.		103
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.	Art	104
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.		105
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.		106
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.		107

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