1930s, Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture (1933)
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1930s, Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture (1933)
“It is a matter of harmonizing these movements, thus arriving at a new possibility for beauty.”
1930s, It Shall Move - On Mobile Sculptures (1932)
1930s, It Shall Move - On Mobile Sculptures (1932)
1930s, It Shall Move - On Mobile Sculptures (1932)
1930s, It Shall Move - On Mobile Sculptures (1932)
these directions making between them meaningful angles, and senses, together defining one big conclusion or many. Spaces, volumes, suggested by the smallest means in contrast to their mass, or even including them, juxtaposed, pierced by vectors, crossed by speeds. Nothing at all of this is fixed. Each element able to move, to stir, to oscillate, to come and go in its relationships with the other elements in its universe. It must not be just a fleeting moment but a physical bond between the varying events in life. Not extractions, but abstractions. Abstractions that are like nothing in life except in their manner of reacting.
1930s, How Can Art Be Realized? (1932)
1920s, Excerpt, Statement on Wire Sculpture (1929)
1920s, Excerpt, Statement on Wire Sculpture (1929)
1920s, Excerpt, Statement on Wire Sculpture (1929)
Question: How did the mobiles start?
1950s - 1960s, Excerpt, Interview with Alexander Calder (1962)
