Calder Circus Drawings. The fame of Calders circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. As you can see the Circus was a toy theater piece the artist constructed between 1926 and 1931 and performed for decades.
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But what was more important the circus also provided the first steps in Calders. Circus Drawings Wire Sculpture and Toys. Though Alexander Calder was known primarily for his abstract mobiles his first major body of work was a multipart toy theater piece.
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The pieces represented circus performers which were designed to be manipulated manually by Calder. After moving to Paris in 1926 Alexander Calder began to fabricate dozens of tiny figures and props for what would become his most beloved worktitled in French Cirque Calder and in English Calders Circus. All the Paris art world came to know it. Alexander Calder performs his Circus Whitney Museum of American ArtYoutube.
