Wherever there is a main issue the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result. In the earlier static abstract sculptures I was most interested in space, vectoral quantities, and centers of differing densities.

— Alexander Calder Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture (1933)

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