Alexander Calder x Art of Play [26 April 2024]

[manu]

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals. His projects from this period include pen-and-ink line drawings of animals for a 1931 publication of Aesop's fables. As Calder's sculpture moved into the realm of pure abstraction in the early 1930s, so did his prints. The thin lines used to define figures in the earlier prints and drawings began delineating groups of geometric shapes, often in motion. Calder also used prints for advocacy, as in poster prints from 1967 and 1969 protesting the Vietnam War.

As Calder's professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings were marketed, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available

[GandalfPC]

heck yes

[STLBluesNut]

these definitely look in line with art of play. the first grade, too cool for you simpletons to understand this high art type of art.

[Harvonsgard]

I'd take it for a dollar.

[hsbc]

[GandalfPC]

[manu]

https://www.artofplay.com/products/calder-playing-cards

[GandalfPC]

Fan of the artist, but won’t be fanning the deck - it’s the sculpture work and mobiles that I enjoy

[kevork]

I'm a fan of Art of Play merging established artists with the playing card medium, but their choice of art more often than not isn't appealing to me. I googled the artist after seeing Gandalf's comment and I'm in agreement that the sculpture work is more in the realm of what I can appreciate.

This seems like something I could find on the wall in a kindergarten classroom.

[manu]

I do really like them, but I'll probably show restraint and wait to get them in a sale or mystery deck.

[Honeybee]

I like these paintings
I find the font on the Tuck strange in that the a and the e are so similar that it spells Caldar to me