  Alexander Calder. Whimsical mobiles. Free-standing 'stabiles.' A surrealist painting come to life! I've always loved those kinetic sculptures"the pretty mobiles of elegantly suspended shapes on wires that defined Calder's artistic style. But what I didn't realize was that Calder was a contemporary of the Surrealists that dominated the pre-WWII Parisian art scene. While in [...]
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:32PM on July 23, 2014