Alexander Calder
Subtitle: de grote ontdekking
By: auteurs, Wietse Coppes [and three others]
Contributors: Haags Gemeentemuseum
Publisher: Ludion
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Antwerpen]
Language: dut
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9789461300454; 9789461300461
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence
Other titles: Grote ontdekking
Description: This book and the exhibition of the same title focuses on the noteworthy encounter between Alexander Calder and Piet Mondrian in 1930. It was less the meeting with the most prominent member of De Stijl that impressed the sculptor than the interior of the studio in Paris that Mondrian occupied at the time. He had covered one wall with coloured paper rectangles that he kept rearranging to arrive at the right composition. Wouldn't it have been better if the shapes could move, Calder asked, to which Mondrian replied that his work was all about rhythm. From that moment on the work of Calder took another direction. The meeting with Mondrian drove Calder towards abstract sculpture: the female figures, elephants, and fish were now replaced by spheres, triangles and organic forms reminiscent of the universe of Miró, but painted in the bright primary colours of Mondrian.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, February 11-May 28, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alexander Calder : beweging in de ruimte / Caroline Roodenburg-Schadd; title: Het "wetenschappelijk-technische laboratorium" van Piet Mondriaan / Wietse Coppes; title: "Mijn schilderkunst is al heel snel" : de ontmoeting tussen Alexander Calder en Piet Mondriaan / Hans Jenssen; title: Alexander Calder in Nederland / Doede Hardeman; title: 1909-1929; title: 1930; title: Alexander Calder en Piet Mondriaan in Parijs; title: 1931-1976; title: Biografie / Saskia Bekke-Proost.