Baseball 1966

Alexander Calder made this drawing with ink and watercolor, maybe in one go. I can imagine him sketching quickly, letting the pink pigment drip down the page, loosely defining the shapes of these long-bodied figures. There's a playfulness here that I really appreciate. The lines are so simple, almost childlike, but they capture something essential about movement and expression. That face with the spiral eyes—what’s that all about? Calder started out as an engineer and I feel he must have approached this kind of work with an analytical approach. It’s like he’s dissecting the human form and reassembling it in his own whimsical way. I see echoes of Picasso's line drawings here, that same effortlessness and fluidity. It makes you wonder, how have artists inspired each other over time? It’s a reminder that painting isn't just about technical skill, it's about seeing the world in a new light and sharing that vision with others.