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Wire Sculpture. The Study of Space and Light. Vocabulary. Space -a boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction Light -a particular expression of the eye, shows direction and shadow
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Wire Sculpture The Study of Space and Light
Vocabulary • Space-a boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction • Light-a particular expression of the eye, shows direction and shadow • Line- a narrow elongated mark drawn or projected, shows direction, point traveling through space • Positive Space- Foreground area, figure • Negative Space-Background area, ground
Alexander Calder • Alexander Calder was born July 22, 1898, in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, into a family of artists. • In 1919, he received an engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. Calder attended the Art Students League, New York, from 1923 to 1926, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton and John Sloan, among others. • As a freelance artist for the National Police Gazette in 1925, he spent two weeks sketching at the circus; his fascination with the subject dates from this time. He also made his first sculpture in 1925; the following year he made several constructions of animals and figures with wire and wood.
More Calder • Alexander Calder's fascination with the circus began in his mid-twenties, when he published illustrations in a New York journal of Barnum and Bailey's Circus, for which he held a year's pass. • It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in the following video- tiny wire performers, ingeniously articulated to walk tightropes, dance, lift weights, and engage in acrobatics in the ring. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder's studio to see the circus in operation.
Calder’s Circus Calder performing the "Circus" from a 1955 film by Jean Painleve From the Whitney Museum of American Art
