Alexander Calder - Croisière, 1931 20220112_143637
Alexander Calder
American, 1898-1976
Croisière, 1931
Wire, wood, and paint
Calder Foundation, New York
Croisière describes disparate, yet complementary, forces: solidity and transparency, volume and void, activity and inactivity. Reflecting later, Alexander Calder observed, "At that time and practically ever since, the underlying form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof... What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners, seems to me the ideal source of form."
Alexander Calder - Croisière, 1931 20220112_143637
Alexander Calder
American, 1898-1976
Croisière, 1931
Wire, wood, and paint
Calder Foundation, New York
Croisière describes disparate, yet complementary, forces: solidity and transparency, volume and void, activity and inactivity. Reflecting later, Alexander Calder observed, "At that time and practically ever since, the underlying form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof... What I mean is that the idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners, seems to me the ideal source of form."