cyrk cirque circus

oh a few weekends ago, there was the most wonderful documentary about alexander calder including calder as a white-haired older gentleman happily playing with the wire and odds and ends circus he made when he first hit paris, back in the 20s/30s youtube brings it all to life part 2 clip here

a still image circus set-up!

a poster of calder's cirque at the whitney

i'm not the biggest fan of circuses, but i do love circus-related art.

i'm not the biggest fan of circuses, but i do love circus-related art.

i'm not the biggest fan of circuses, but i do love circus-related art.

i'm not the biggest fan of circuses, but i do love circus-related art.

i'm not the biggest fan of circuses, but i do love circus-related art.

as well as calder's cirque-ing around, there is the wide world of polish cyrk posters i bought one recently on a trip to the national gallery in canberra.

ironically (tragically?) they don't know the artist of the poster.

i recognised the poster from an article in projekt (1968), a polish graphic art magazine my parents had from the 60s, polski plakat cyrkowy polish circus posters // l'affiche de cirque en pologne. (article in 3 languages, how european!)

cyrk, tadeusz jodłowski (the one i bought in canberra)

henry tomaszewski cryk, 1965

jan lenica, cyrk, 1976