MOLLY BARKER

▪ ABOUT ALEXANDER CALDER

▪ INFLUNECE MAPS
▪ TRAVLOGUE
▪ THUMNAILS
▪ FINAL CONCEPTS
▪ BREAKING DOWN THE CONCEPT
▪ PRODUCTION DESIGN
▪ OTHROGRAPHS
▪ MATTE PAINTING
▪ MODELING
▪ STAGES
▪ FINAL SCENE
 Alex Calder (22th July 1898-11 November 1976) was an American
sculptor from Pennsylvania. He was the son of well-known sculptor
Alexander Stirling Calder, and his grandfather and mother were also
successful artists.
Alex has been constructing objects from a very young age. The first
known art tool he used was a pair of pliers, that at eight Calder was
creating jewelry for his sister's dolls from beads and copper wire. He
crafted small animal figures and game boards from scavenged wood
and brass. Calder's interest initially led not to art, but to mechanical
engineering and applied kinetics, which he studied at Stevens Institute
of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (1915-1919). Fig 1, Alex working on a piece
Most artists used paper to do contour line drawings, but Calder was
the first to use wire to create three-dimensional line “drawings“ of
people, animals, and objects. These "linear sculptures” introduced line
into sculpture as an element itself.
Calder changed from figurative linear sculptures in wire to abstract
forms in motion by creating the first mobiles. Composed of different
lengths of wire counterbalanced with thin metal fins, the appearance of
the entire piece was randomly arranged and rearranged in space by
chance simply by the air moving the individual parts.
“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.”
(Alexander Calder)
Fig 2, Alex working on a piece
▪ The people of the city all have work to do, many of the people work on developing
and constructing the buildings around the city. They have a rough guide line that
they all have to follow for each concept for a new building. They all have to be a
primary colour and cannot be the same as another one.
Blue- to 3D models
Green- background