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- Beyond mobiles, Calder excelled in creating monumental sculptures, or “stabiles,” which, though immobile, carried the same essence of dynamism and playfulness, significantly impacting public spaces and the perception of art in communal areas.
artmovements.net › alexander-calders-legacy-revolutionizing-art-through-motionAlexander Calder’s Legacy: Revolutionizing Art through Motion
Jun 16, 2019 · The installation of the Calder, the first public art project in the country funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, was envisioned as a way to tie the new Vandenberg Center Plaza...
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The sculpture was the first public art work funded by the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Fabricated in Tours, France and assembled on the plaza, the steel sculpture is 43 feet tall, 54 feet long, and 30 feet wide, and weighs 42 tons. It is painted in Calder's signature bright red.
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Oct 6, 2013 · The Calder helped put Grand Rapids on the art world map long before ArtPrize, she argues. It’s been the backdrop of the annual Festival of the Arts since its inception and it foreshadowed ...
Calder attends the dedication ceremony for La Grande vitesse, a monumental stabile commissioned by the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in August 1967. This is the first sculpture to be funded by the public art program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
The efforts of Mulnix resulted in the creation of La Grande Vitesse, fondly referred to as the Calder, which became the first sculpture in the United States to be supported with public funds for the arts.
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Surrounded by his family and working in a large studio he built in Roxbury, Connecticut, from 1958 to the 1970s Calder created numerous, monumental public sculptures. While these included some mobiles, his outdoor works were more often large-scale stabiles.
In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions.
