Alexander Calder’s Mobiles in Home Interior

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Want to add the dangling bright colors and different shapes of Alexander Calder’s mobile to your home’s interior? Have you ever tried to balance a mobile made of sticks and objects hanging from threads or wire? Have you ever touched or blown at a mobile and watched the beams slowly swinging?

Mobiles in Home Interior

Alexander Calder’s Style Mobile

To many people who look at mobile, it is no more than just a series of different objects that move. To a few, though, it may be like poetry.

An American sculptor best known as the originator of the mobile, Alexander Calder, may have been the first to philosophize about the connection between art, poetry and mobiles, but may embraced using mobiles as home décor. With his background in engineering and mathematics he was inspired to make art that was three-dimensional and kinetic.

The bold curves recall the shapes of the mobile objects in some of the earlier panels and frames. Because they appear different from all sides, the stabiles invite the viewer to walk around them, thus implying, like the mobiles, the ideas of movement and perception in time. Calder created huge and beautiful mobiles that hang today in many museums.