Q: While we were buying our Christmas tree we got to talking about the history of Christmas trees and how they came to play such a big part of Christmas.
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“The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos.” Alexander Calder One of the most widely praised and influential of all modern sculptors, Alexander Calder became world-famous primarily for creating kinetic sculptures, sculptures in which a key element of the composition is movement itself. Innovative and prolific, Calder has been celebrated as a visionary, a pioneering talent, and a key contributor to the definition of a twentieth-century aesthetic. His place in the pantheon .