He was a successful sculptor; his son, also named Alexander, made a stable living out of mobile art
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Notable People Black History - The Woodlawn Cemetery  She was the mother of acclaimed artist, Romare Bearden. ... He spoke out against the policy rackets of the Depression Era and as a result two gunmen .... in several successful television programs including: Sanford and Son, Dynasty, Good ... In 1925 his choir made notable appearances in the all black productions of Green...
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Workshop Leader - Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape ...  Our leaders are not only experts in what they teach, most are also practicing artists. ... Jackie Battenfield is an artist known for her luminously colored paintings and ... of the Arts. Battenfield is author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing ... With all of his work he sets out to engage the public and foster a sense of...
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Cy Twombly, American Artist, Is Dead at 83 - The New York Times  Jul 6, 2011 ... Cy Twombly went contrary to all the fashions of his era, which ... Site Mobile Navigation ... out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became ... Each line he made, he said, was the actual experience of making ... But he also came to New York at the heyday of the New York School...
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Alexander Calder Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story  Artworks and analysis: Alexander Calder redefined sculpture by introducing ... should come out of the ground, never out of the ceiling, but mobiles too can ... In addition to his abstract mobiles, Calder also created static sculptures, called "stabiles ... to art, but to mechanical engineering and applied kinetics, which he studied...
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Alexander Calder - Wikipedia  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. Calder's monumental stationary sculptures are called stabiles. ... That same year he also completed his earliest sculpture, a clay elephant.
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Understanding the Burr-Hamilton Duel | The Gilder Lehrman ...  Alexander Hamilton, bronze sculpture by Kim Crowley, 2004. Deadly ... And his oldest son Philip had died in a duel defending his father's name three years past. ... She is the editor of Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America, 2001).
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Free Flashcards about SCULPTURE - StudyStack  CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI WAS NOTED FOR HIS STARK SCULPTURES OF THIS KIND OF ANIMAL "IN SPACE", A BIRD. IT'S WHAT ALEXANDER CALDER...
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This Week in History: Alexander Calder died | Marin Academy Library  Nov 6, 2015 ... tags: artists, sculpture, surrealism, this week in history .... The stabiles became Calder's largest endeavors in sculpture, approaching ... Works in Progress, a ballet conceived by Calder that featured an array of mobiles, stabiles, and large painted backdrops, was produced with electronic music at the Rome...
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Irving Lavin, The Sculptor's 'Last Will and Testament', - Institute for ...  60, whereas he represents himself as a kind of ... and Baroque Sculpture, London-N~w York, 1970. p. 323 ... describing is not confined to old age; one coul~ ..... p -Hr.). once Veffhu:ll:l began 10 mdude hiS profession. .... the guise of Nicodemus or Joseph of Arimathea ..... Florentine Pieta. in this sense. and he relates it to the.
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Alexander Calder - MoMA  Page 8 ..... He became familiar with the procedures of painting and sculpture while .... Brass wire. Ca. 28" high. Private collection. Calder s Circus: Paris 1926-1927 ..... Mobile. Steel wire and rod, sheet aluminum and wood. 7' high. Private ..... Red Petals. 1942. Mobile. Sheet steel and wire, sheet aluminum. 9' 2" high.
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Antoine Bourdelle - Wikipedia  Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861  1 October 1929), born mile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor, painter, and teacher.
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Alexander II | emperor of Russia | Britannica.com  Jun 22, 2016 ... The future Tsar Alexander II was the eldest son of the grand duke Nikolay ... died in 1881, some 14,000 miles (22,525 km) of railway were in operation. .... II among its founding fathers with a statue in the heart of its capital, Sofia. ... to shoot him, to derail his train, and finally to blow up the Winter Palace in...
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Free Flashcards about SCULPTURE - StudyStack  THIS AMERICAN'S 1942 MOBILE "RED PETALS" STANDS 8 1/2 FEET TALL AND CONSISTS OF PAINTED SHEET METAL AND WIRE, CALDER. AT AGE 75...
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Alexander Calder's sculptural fireworks | 1843 - 1843 Magazine  Dec 8, 2015 ... Moving one part a fraction causes the next to go belly-up. ... Mobile was the word coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe what Calder...
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A (little) big top is popping up at the AGO this autumn | AGO Art ...  Landmark early works by American artist Alexander Calder tell the story of an artist ... with a creation that has to be seen to be believed  a magical miniature circus. ... wire sculptures he created in Paris to early examples of his famous mobiles. ... curator at large at the Whitney Museum of American Art, who organized the...
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Virtue, Liberty, and Independence: Cyrus and Nettie McCormick  Nov 22, 2011 ... His father, Robert Hall McCormick valiantly sought to invent a ... He worked for sixteen years on a horse-drawn reaper but was unsuccessful. ... a reaper failed, his son Cyrus invented a mechanical reaper which succeeded in his endeavor. ... Cyrus McCormick became an important influential businessman...
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Alexander the Great - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Nov 14, 2013 ... Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great (21 July 356 BCE  10 or 11 June 323 BCE), was the son of King Philip II of Macedon. ... introduced to the Greek philosopher Aristotle who Philip hired as a private tutor. ... While it is clear that his father had a great impact on him, Alexander himself...
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The Portraits of Alexander the Great - JStor  The conqueror of Europe and Persia (326-. 330 B.C.) . .... made by the court sculptor Lysippos. ... he did not accompany Alexander and as his his- ... early third century B.c. His romantic, rhetorical .... ways followed him to his battles, not one of which ..... the fourth century. ... scent, but also to the serpent which is said to have.
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Alexander Calder | American artist | Britannica.com  Alexander Calder in his Roxbury, Connecticut, studio. ... the sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder (18701945), and his grandfather sculptor ... 1920s Paris, an era legendary for its aesthetic ferment that produced modern ... He also produced large-scale bolted stabiles (the name given by artist Jean Arp to his stationary works),...
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Constantin Brncui - Wikipedia  Constantin Brncui was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brncui is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. ... When he was 18, Brncui created a violin by hand with materials he found...
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Alexander Calder - View & Collect 282 Artworks | Artsy  American artist Alexander Calder changed the course of modern art by developing a ... Calder's mobiles (a term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe his work) ... Sculpture on the Move 19462016, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel. 2016.