LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg (American, born in Sweden, 1929) Soft Calendar for the Month of August, 1962 Canvas filled with shredded foam rubber, painted with liquitex and enamel; 41 3/4 x 42 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (106 x 108 x 10.8 cm) The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006 (2006.32.49) Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/modern...

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Coosje van Bruggen (sculptor) American, 1942 - 2009 Claes Oldenburg (sculptor) American, born Sweden, 1929 Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, model 1998, fabricated 1999 painted stainless steel and fiberglass overall: 602.6 x 387.4 x 345.4 cm (237 1/4 x 152 1/2 x 136 in.) overall (diameter of round part of eraser): 276.9 cm (109 in.) gross weight (4545 kg estimated): 10000.000 lb Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation 1998.150.1 Text from: www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=107762

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Coosje van Bruggen (sculptor) American, 1942 - 2009 Claes Oldenburg (sculptor) American, born Sweden, 1929 Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, model 1998, fabricated 1999 painted stainless steel and fiberglass overall: 602.6 x 387.4 x 345.4 cm (237 1/4 x 152 1/2 x 136 in.) overall (diameter of round part of eraser): 276.9 cm (109 in.) gross weight (4545 kg estimated): 10000.000 lb Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation 1998.150.1 Text from: www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=107762

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Coosje van Bruggen (sculptor) American, 1942 - 2009 Claes Oldenburg (sculptor) American, born Sweden, 1929 Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, model 1998, fabricated 1999 painted stainless steel and fiberglass overall: 602.6 x 387.4 x 345.4 cm (237 1/4 x 152 1/2 x 136 in.) overall (diameter of round part of eraser): 276.9 cm (109 in.) gross weight (4545 kg estimated): 10000.000 lb Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation 1998.150.1 Text from: www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=107762

Claes Oldenburg (artist) American, born Sweden, 1929 Glass Case with Pies (Assorted Pies in a Case), 1962 burlap soaked in plaster, painted with enamel, with pie tins, in glass-and-metal case overall: 47.6 x 31.1 x 27.6 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.) Gift of Leo Castelli, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art 1991.54.1 Text from: www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=72258

Claes Oldenburg. (American, born Sweden, 1929). Giant Soft Fan. 1966-67. Vinyl filled with foam rubber, wood, metal, and plastic tubing, Fan, approximately 10' x 58 7/8" x 61 7/8" (305 x 149.5 x 157.1 cm), plus cord and plug 24' 3 1/4" (739.6 cm) long. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. Publication excerpt The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 249 Pop art's gaze on the universe of commercial products is often deadpan and cool. With Oldenburg, though, it becomes more comically disorienting: sculptures like Giant Soft Fan challenge our acceptance of the everyday world both by rendering hard objects in soft materials, so that they sag and droop, and by greatly inflating their size. (There are also Oldenburg works that make soft objects hard.) The smooth, impersonal vinyl surfaces of Giant Soft Fan are Oldenburg's knowing inversion of the hard-edge aesthetic of the 1960s. There is humor in this transformation of a hard machine into a collapsible object, which, like Salvador Dalí's limp watches, has a not too elliptical bodily and sexual connotation. There is also a subtle nostalgia: in its focus on the culture of its time, Pop art seemed jarringly up-to-date in the 1960s, but this fan's design was old-fashioned even then. Oldenburg often makes monumental public sculpture, enlarging his everyday objects to a scale far more enormous than even the Giant Soft Fan. Notes he wrote in 1967 show him playing with that idea: "The Fan's first placement was on Staten Island, blowing up the bay. Later, I sited it as a replacement for the Statue of Liberty . . . [guaranteeing] workers on Lower Manhattan a steady breeze." Text from: www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=82053

Claes Oldenburg. (American, born Sweden, 1929). Giant Soft Fan. 1966-67. Vinyl filled with foam rubber, wood, metal, and plastic tubing, Fan, approximately 10' x 58 7/8" x 61 7/8" (305 x 149.5 x 157.1 cm), plus cord and plug 24' 3 1/4" (739.6 cm) long. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. Publication excerpt The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 249 Pop art's gaze on the universe of commercial products is often deadpan and cool. With Oldenburg, though, it becomes more comically disorienting: sculptures like Giant Soft Fan challenge our acceptance of the everyday world both by rendering hard objects in soft materials, so that they sag and droop, and by greatly inflating their size. (There are also Oldenburg works that make soft objects hard.) The smooth, impersonal vinyl surfaces of Giant Soft Fan are Oldenburg's knowing inversion of the hard-edge aesthetic of the 1960s. There is humor in this transformation of a hard machine into a collapsible object, which, like Salvador Dalí's limp watches, has a not too elliptical bodily and sexual connotation. There is also a subtle nostalgia: in its focus on the culture of its time, Pop art seemed jarringly up-to-date in the 1960s, but this fan's design was old-fashioned even then. Oldenburg often makes monumental public sculpture, enlarging his everyday objects to a scale far more enormous than even the Giant Soft Fan. Notes he wrote in 1967 show him playing with that idea: "The Fan's first placement was on Staten Island, blowing up the bay. Later, I sited it as a replacement for the Statue of Liberty . . . [guaranteeing] workers on Lower Manhattan a steady breeze." Text from: www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=82053