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Alexander Calder

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It's National Cat Day in the art world, too! Calder's cat mobile.

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"I paint with shapes."

Alexander Calder, Pyramids and Circles, Lithograph in Colors.

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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.

Alexander Calder

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Alexander Calder was born today in 1898. The existentialist philosopher Jean–Paul Sartre praised Calder’s mobiles, describing them as “lyrical invention.”

[Alexander Calder. Untitled. 1939.]

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Happy birthday, Calder!

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