Abstract:

Alexander Calder chose to be an engineer although he came from a family that deals with art. Later, he stepped on art area with the help of his interest of painting pictures. He managed to make his figures gaine a different motion with his continuous lines in those sketches in which he directly mentioned about human life. He continued with single lined patterns, which emphasized the circuses and the life in them. Continuous line insight in Calder’s patterns apparently became a milestone for his future production of sculpture. By entering into the art of sculpture in 1925, he had his first string sculpture by means of carrying those patterns to three-dimensioned setting. Although Calder was affected by the synetic constructions of Gabo, an artist, he reached an authentic structure and sensibility by focusing on plans instead of volume in his works. In 1930, the artist designed moving mobiles by being affected by the concrete light coming from the atelier windows of Mondrian, an artist. He created his works from metal tablets and sticks, and he enabled them to swing in the air by means of hanging them from a single point in a balanced way. Calder’s works are the last step of the struggle of an artist who tries to make people to interpret some communicational effects and make them to understand the free composition created by him. Calder who began to create big immobile sculptures produced anemobiles as a result of his interest of animal figures. Calder’s mobiles can be counted among the primary examples of kinetic art. The works of the artist are the first examples of the area in sense of presenting a real moving alteration. The artist aimed at presenting free and coincidental alteration instead of a meticulously well-planned one. The receiver or aesthetic subject in Calder’s work can be put into a game, which bases on the understanding of the object of art production, and which includes the answer of this object to the art work depending on his own mind and the capacity of his emotions. While aesthetical subject gives reaction with these warnings and response games, which devote themselves to shape them, it will shape its existence, its conditioning according to a defined culture, its likings, its personal education and its prejudices according to private and personal views. As a result, artwork will gain aesthetical value as it is monitored and perceived with different angles.

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