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Happy birthday to American sculptor Alexander Calder born today in 1898. Known for his mobiles, Calder embraced the meanings implied by the French term, both referring to a motive and something movable, even quick and unstable, and used it for his works where elements moved by currents of air. Enjoy "Red Lily Pads" from our collection and currently on view in Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim," on view through September 6. Learn more: http://gu.gg/E8N730dN8zC
Photo: David Heald
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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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. Wikipedia
Born: July 22, 1898, Lawnton, Swatara Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: November 11, 1976, New York City, New York, United States
On view: Museum of Modern Art, MORE
Periods: Abstract art, Expressionism, Abstract expressionism, Modern art, Kinetic art, Surrealism, Section d'Or
Spouse: Louisa James (m. 1931–1976)
Education: Art Students League of New York (1923–1926), MORE
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.


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“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”—Edward Hopper, who was born on this day in 1882.


Edward Hopper (1882–1967) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching.Wikipedia
Born: July 22, 1882, Upper Nyack, New York, United States
Died: May 15, 1967, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
On view: Whitney Museum of American Art, MORE
Periods: Neoclassicism, Social realism, Modern art, American Realism, Realism, Modernism, Ashcan School, Nouveau réalisme
Spouse: Josephine Hopper (m. 1924–1967)
Influenced by: Gustave Courbet, Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, Honoré Daumier, Paul Strand
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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
More of me comes out when I improvise.

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