Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder is am American sculptor. His sculptors were always distorted and verified different scales and shapes. Calder also created wire sculptures of portraits, figures and animals. In the wire sculptors you could figure out what the object was, but the figure would always be slightly distorted as it is hard to frame the exact shape of the subject using wire.

This is one of my favourite wire sculpture. The

Style of the sculpture interests me, as it seems to

Be half cubism with a few features of the face,

And also art Nuevo with the use of lines for the

Hair. Another thing that interests me about this

Sculpture, is the simplicity of the subject, but

Also how difficult it is to make and create the final outcome if it. The piece of art work displays a portrait of a woman with distorted facial features, showing an unperfected sculpture. I think what Calder was trying to show/explain thru his sculptures, is that not everything is as it seems; and not everything is perfect. So by changing the scale and figures of his sculptures, he was trying to change what people saw and to also change people’s views on perfect.

A few more of the artist’s work and sculptures....