Plastic Miró: Calder
The plastic Miró I want consider no the sculpture of Spanish master, but
the sculpture that has took origin from Jean Miró(1893-1983), this is the plastic
art of Alexander Calder(1898-1976), that during his stay in Paris that were
crucial years for his develop of his style, and the influence was radical, at
last to judge from works of Alexander; it is sufficient a confront between the
painting works of Miró and the sculpture of Calder(Figs.1-4); the wire that
Calder used for his sculpture is the lines that Miró used in his
painting(Fig.4); the suggestion from this use, very strange, of wire is from a
friends of Calder, Clays Spohn(1898-1977), that after a glance to a work of
Calder suggested to him of work the wire; he has worked that wire and he has
followed the graphic line with wire, but during stay in Paris, evidently he has
modified the use of wire, and also the colors he has took from Miró, because
the confront is automatic(Figs. 1,2,5,6-6bis); the strong tone of colors that
Calder has used to sculpture and painting, because the influence of Miró was
involved also the painting of Calder, the irrational composition of Miró(Fig.4)
has suggested to Calder(Fig.9). The sense of these subject is irrational, as
the abstractionism, and Calder during his French adhered to abstractionism in
1930 after the visit to studio of Piet Mondrian(1872-1944). The portraits of
Calder, worked with wire has took from painted portraits Miró’s(Figs.10-17),
that after Calder has worked with wire, the facial typology is very similar,
and the essential lines that Calder used to one of his wire portrait(Fig.16) follows
the essential line that Miró used for one very famous work(Figs.17-18); but the
influence of the Spanish master continued also to great sculptures; some memory
of Miró is present(Figs.22-23). Therefore the French period of Calder is a
involved school, and he persisted in the style of Mironian shape, although he
didn’t never copied the Spanish, but the influence is radical. Other innovation
of Calder in sculpture is the movement that he, thank his love to technology
because he was an engineer, given to sculpture because the light iron that used
for his sculpture has given to static art as sculpture the possibility of
movement; before of Calder the movement was suggested from the dynamic posture
of figure, but Calder gives to his works the certitude of dynamic vision,
because is sufficient a light wind and the movement is assured. He has melted
the dynamism to aesthetic, he has took lessons of contemporary masters but has
kept the technic that has used to develop of sculpture.
Alessandro Lusana
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