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Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most explore new conceptions of form and identity in the medium of sculpture. Executed over a fifty-year period from the early 1920s to the 1970s, Calder's portraits reveal a real talent for portraiture, for encapsulating individual character traits in both representational and abstract art, and in two and three dimensions. Calder recorded his friendships in a remarkably vivid and generous way. Through his relationship with his subjects he continually defined and redefined himself, and his oeuvre in the genre of portraiture became a life narrative.… (meer)
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The exhibition, catalogue, and additional programs for Calder's Portraits: A New Language are made possible by the generous support of
Marc Pachter Exhibition Fund Abraham and Virginia Weiss Charitable Trust, Amy and Marc Meadows The Paul M. and Christine G. Wick Fund National Portrait Gallery Presidents' Circle Smithsonian Women's Committee An anonymous donor
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Calder's Portraits---are they caricature, craft, or art?
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The important thing for me is to avoid an impression of mud piled up on the ground.
When models fail, I paint myself.
Be careful where you step. Everything here is important.
When I was a kid of eight my father and mother gave me some tools with which to work wood, and I began to do everything it took to augment my toys.
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That he was able to infuse a sense of his love for his friends and his enjoyment in life into his art remains the most extraordinary thing about Calder, as expressed by Arthur Miller: "Is it not a great thing for us all...that his personal qualities of directness, cheerfulness, his wit and his joy in being alive should also have been so infused in his art?"
Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most explore new conceptions of form and identity in the medium of sculpture. Executed over a fifty-year period from the early 1920s to the 1970s, Calder's portraits reveal a real talent for portraiture, for encapsulating individual character traits in both representational and abstract art, and in two and three dimensions. Calder recorded his friendships in a remarkably vivid and generous way. Through his relationship with his subjects he continually defined and redefined himself, and his oeuvre in the genre of portraiture became a life narrative.
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