Claes Oldenburg Essay

Oldenburg first opened small exhibits around New York filled with sculptures he created out of paper mache and plaster. From here his art took off and began catching the attention of people everywhere. In the 1960’s Oldenburg rented out a space in New York and filled it with sculptures that depicted diner food, cheap clothing, and other manufactured items. Oldenburg called this “The Store”. The sculptures that he created in “The Store” were called soft sculptures. These types of sculptures are made from cloth, foam, rubber, paper and other type of “soft” materials. These works of art are now known as the first sculptural expression of pop art. With the popularity stemming from Oldenburg’s exhibits, he soon realized he wanted to expand and

As I walk on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, I encounter one of the Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s giant shuttlecocks. Additionally, as I view and walk around this giant shuttlecock, I cannot help but think of how this object is disproportional, especially in comparison to it’s surroundings. The shuttlecock is huge and unbelievably larger than the average size of a shuttlecock, which would fit within the palm of my hand. An altered view is created by the use of the visual principles of scale and proportion in order to create this sculpture.

I chose to critique Helen Frankenthaler Snow Pines at in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art from 2004 in Garland Hall at the University of Alabama.

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Attended Harvard and he graduated 21st of 177. He studied in the fields of sciences, German, rhetoric, philosophy, and ancient languages. (1876-1880)

Did having Elie’s father alive affect him from surviving longer or did he just hold him back? Night is a book written by a man who at the time was just a teenager, he was a Jew and just because of that he was abused in many ways. His name is Elie Wiesel. Elie watched as so many Jews were beaten, killed, or being criticized in the concentration camps. Elie’s father helped Elie get through the contraction camps in so many ways. While reading this book I saw how they would help each other through the tough times.

Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818, he was the son of a slave woman and, her white master. Upon his escape from slavery at age 20, he adopted the name of the hero of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. Douglass immortalized his years as a slave in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845). This and two other autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), mark his greatest contributions to American culture. Written as antislavery propaganda and personal revelation, they are regarded as the finest examples of the slave narrative tradition and as classics of American autobiography.

The piece I chose to write about is called Anti-Mass by Cornelia Parker who originated from London, created this piece in 2005. She was also raised Catholic which really gives you a sense of this sculpture. It is located at the de Young. What really made me chose this piece is because of how massive it was when I walked up to it. It seemed so intense when I looked at it and at the same time it looked so surreal. Now with this piece, you would need to walk around it at least twice to really feel how it is huge when it comes to the size, its hanging from the ceiling and continues till its only a few inches off the ground. Walking around it is when you really understand the size since its three-dimensional.

Simon Wiesenthal was born in Buczaz on December 31, 1908. Wiesenthal lived there until 1915 when his mother moved them to Vienna. In 1928 Wiesenthal graduated. After Wiesenthal graduated he applied to the Polytechnical Institute, he was rejected by the Polytechnical Institute he was accepted by the Technical University of Prague. By 1932 he had earned a degree in architectural engineering.

Created to help grow recognition of the Museum, the project of Modern Sculpture Initiative collected identifiable sculptures in the Kansas City Sculpture Park at the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Paine 15). This park holds pieces from Henry Moore and the duo Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen. As a gift to retired Martin Friedman, who was the advisor of the Modern Sculpture Initiative and director of the Walker, he got to commission a work by the artist of his choosing (Roxy Paine’s), 2010). With help from the Hall Family Foundation, a dendroid installation called Ferment by Roxy Paine was the newest addition in 2011 (Paine 17). Since Paine has 24 dendroid sculptures spread across North America, it is an honor to have one that gave excitement and quality to the park (Roxy Paine’s, 2010). Curator Jan Schall expressed, “Roxy Paine is one of the most important young sculptors today. Ferment will be the reigning monarch on that hillside. It is an outstanding addition to the collection that will enlighten, perplex and delight everyone who sees it. (“Roxy Paine’s”, 2010)” When a person goes to the Nelson-Atkins Museum, they may see a tall, shiny tree in the park. However, this installation

The art piece that I chose to critique is the sculpture of a figure kneeling down and getting shocked. It is located on campus near the Morris University Center(muc). When I first saw this sculpture it caught my attention immediately, because of how gruesome the piece was. I feel like I don’t have a good understanding of what the sculpture represents, but it seems like it would raise plenty of controversy, due to its erotic features. It seems like the artist was venting his emotions when he created his idea. The sculpture is fairly large in size, which makes it noticeable, among the other art pieces on campus. The sculpture media consist of wood and concrete, and metal mostly. The individual is keeling down toward the west and is supported

He was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a sculptor best known for his public art installations. His sculptures often featured very large replicas of everyday objects. He was also a pop artist. A pop artist is a sculptor or painter that, paints or sculpts everyday objects. He often worked in close partnership with his wife Coosje van Bruggen. The Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture completed in 1988 by he and Coosje van Bruggen is on display at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Oldenburg made his first show at the Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square. The show presented his three dimensional works. In 1959, Oldenburg had many kinds of work of art. He developed his skill by creating sacking,

The challenges faced by Cleisthenes were many including that he was born into a rich family, since young he was told he was an aristocrat (member of the roman clan) and he had to live up to that. Cleisthenes believed that the ordinary people should be able to make political decisions, yet he lived in a government where it was ruled by a few elites and the ordinary people did not have a say. The aristocratic elite had power against the rest of the people, and were only interested in preserving their own power. Another challenge Cleisthenes faced was that while growing to manhood Pysetrises ruled and Cleisthenes saw how Athens (his home) changed from a rural settlement into a international economic power, yet Pysetrises was not the problem.

The scientific revolution was one of the greatest times in the 16th century and its ideals have proved to last to this very day. The great minds of the scientific revolution brought forth new concepts and vastly complex while each one is rooted in a basic fundamental. Some of these ideas and fundamentals were of the outside world, aka space, the planet and the stars, motion, and physics. One of the best minds of this time was, of course, Galileo Galilei. This great astronomer was a marvel at his work, he introduced controversial concepts that the church did not accept but those that he believed were to be true. Written by Galileo himself, this letter to the Grand Duchess professed his great discoveries and how they changed old ideas and

The second sculpture I want to talk about today is “Campus Talk” by Dennis Smith. This is another permanent sculpture on Western Michigan University and is one that everyone usually sees when they are heading to the library. This sculpture is my third favorite one on campus at this point in time. The sculpture has two students talking to another student on a bike. Dennis Smith also did a superb job using the elements of art throughout this sculpture. When observing the sculpture, the first thing you notice is the contour lines in the sculpture such as the book cover, fingers, and the straps on the backpack. These lines help define the outside edges of the sculpture. The next element of art that one can see in this sculpture is shape. The wheel on the bike is a geometric shape because it is a circle. This a great example of this element and one that anyone who views it can find. The third element present in this sculpture is value. In the sculpture, there is a bit of a grey scale although the sculpture is mostly light green now due to the weather. The fourth element present in this sculpture is the texture. The sculpture has a simulated texture which means that it