Among Alexander Calder's creations were miniature spring-loaded circus figures, made of wire. In this short film, Calder (1989-1976) talks about and demonstrates these toy-like creations.

calder's Circus consists of an elaborate troupe of over seventy diminutive figures and animals, nearly one hundred accessories such as carpets and lamps, and over thirty musical instruments, ...

Across the course of more than six decades, Alexander ... outdoor sculpture. Calder had trained as a mechanical engineer, but he was an aspiring artist by the time he arrived in Paris in 1926, ...

The artist Marcel Duchamp called Calder’s sculptures’ ‘mobiles’ because they moved when the wind blew. Here is one of his mobiles made in 1953. How do you ...

Alexander Calder was an American artist. He was born in 1898 in Pennsylvania, USA and died in 1976. Sculptures are usually still as people walk around them, but Calder's sculptures move.