In 1925 he created a sundial in the form of a cockerel, the first of many works like "Red, Black, and Blue" and "Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" in which he tried to create what he called "four dimensional drawings".
While studying at the School of the Art Students' League, this artist and his fellow students engaged in a game in which they rapidly sketched people on the streets, during which he developed his skill to convey movement with a single unbroken line which would become essential to his later art. In 1925 he created a sundial in the form of a cockerel, the first of many works like "Red, Black, and Blue" and "Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" in which he tried to create what he called "four dimensional drawings". FTP, who was this American artist who invented sculptures suspended on wires or cords called mobiles?
While studying at the School of the Art Students' League, this artist and his fellow students engaged in a game in which they rapidly sketched people on the streets, during which he developed his skill to convey movement with a single unbroken line which would become essential to his later art.
Alexander Calder