Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is known for his unique sculptures that reflect the pop-culture era. Born in Sweden, his family moved to the United States when Oldenburg was just a baby. When Oldenburg got older her attended Yale University and moved to New York where he met the two people that inspired him artistically, Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow. With this inspiration, Oldenburg began his career as an artist. Oldenburg first opened small exhibits around New York filled with sculptures he created out of paper mache

Claes Oldenburg was a wonderful sculptor. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden on January 28, 1929. He was famous for his sculptures, which were usually created from everyday objects, however at first he worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He developed his famous skills by working on paper machie. His style of art was pop art , which is art based on modern culture and the media. There were many other people who did this style, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist

Claes Oldenburg was born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a member of the Swedish foreign service, so Claes and his family moved often. From 1930 to 1933 the Oldenburgs lived in New York, and from 1933 to 1936 they lived in Oslo, Norway. Then in 1936 the family moved to Chicago, where Claes's father served as consul general of Sweden. Oldenburg graduated from the Latin School in Chicago in 1946. Then he enrolled at Yale University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1950. When

ART OF EVERYDAY CRAP In his ‘Ode to Possibilities’, Claes Oldenburg maintained, “I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top.” While so many Modernists rejected the tools and medium of “fine art” to make art of “everyday crap” using advertisements, packaging, newspapers, cardboard, commodities and rubbish, there may be several reasons for this, including opposition to consumerism, opposition to the previous movements and desire to draw distinctions, and

The sculpture is planted in the San Francisco bay Trail at the end of Folsom Street near the Bay Bridge. It was created in 2002 by married artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, and took more than three years to be constructed. (Rotman, Steve, 2009) The sculpture is approximately 60-foot-tall, made with fiberglass, steel material, reinforced plastic and surrounded by landscape. The bottom

140, Duane Hanson’s Woman Eating, 1971; pp. 142, Claes Oldenburg, Soft Toilet, 1966; pp. 144, Christo and Jean-Claude, The Gates, 2004   Using 200 – 250 words, answer the following: 1.           What is the name of the sculpture you have chosen to write about? 2.           Is this work full-round or

I selected Clothespin by Claes Oldenburg as my postmodernism visual piece of art to discuss. This sculpture has multiple characteristics associated with postmodernism. I will be explaining four of them. The first postmodernism trait I want to present is recycle from the past. Clothespins were a staple in almost every household, since clothes were hung from the clothing line to get dried before the drying machine took over that function. Oldenburg took a former common every day object from the past

60s. Claes Oldenburg works in sculpture but is still one of the players in the growing pop art movement we are seeing today. Oldenburg creates “soft-sculptures” using materials like cloth, foam and rubber. In just his materials alone you could see how he is using this common goal of consumption and industrialization used by many of the other pop artists. Items like rubber, foam and plastic are being used in everything we buy today and are common amongst our American culture. Oldenburg works

“Mr. Gorman calls the library the "great intellectual and cultural center" of the academic community. Librarians sometimes call the library a "third place," a reference to a theme in Ray Oldenburg's book The Great Good Place. Mr. Oldenburg, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of West Florida, lamented in his book that good public places are disappearing in America. Society, he says, desperately needs third places — places that are neither home (the first place) nor

After the ending of World War II, what was deemed as the second generation of Abstract expressionist, painters located to Greenwich Village, a neighborhood located in New York, during the 1950’s. Here, these artists formed a close-knit community, where they organized discussion groups to essentially share their ideas, and galleries to showcase their own work. From here, is where Pop Art made its grand entrance on the art scene. Originating in Great Britain in the 1950’s, Pop art made its way to