The artist Claes Oldenburg did his job as an artist by making people think and feel many different things when they viewed his Giant Hamburger. The art students viewed the large hamburger and they had a direct perception to the art and the art students were compelled to make their own artistic expression. The students had an immediate aesthetic view of the hamburger and soon after they had a practical view for the art even if they meant it to be satirical. The artist himself even commented on the
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University where (in 1957) he received his BFA. Dine moved to New York City‚ in 1958 and immediately became involved in "Happenings" (although it should be noted Dine rejected this term‚ preferring "painter’s theater")‚ performance art stagings with Claes Oldenburg‚ and Allan Kaprow. By early 1959‚ he was a principal member of the Judson Group (a group of artists which gathered regularly at the Judson Gallery) along with Tom Wesselmann‚ George Segal‚ Robert Rauschenberg‚ and Roy Lichtenstein. In 1959 Dine
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Who is Claes Oldenburg? Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor‚ best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Where is he from? Claes Oldenburg is from Stockholm. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm is the most
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The name of the artist I am researching is Claes Oldenburg. They were born in Stockholm Sweden on January 28‚ 1929. Their family life was mainly spent in USA‚ Chicago due his father’s occupation as a Swedish consul. Some of their early influences include working as a reporter‚ publishing drawings in magazines‚ painting pictures influenced by Abstract Expressionism‚ the writings of Sigmund Freud which helped Oldenburg to locate his inner self in his artwork‚ acquainting some artists in the pop art
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commanding space or fantastic implications. Rene Magritte’s painting Personal Values constructs a room with objects whose proportions are so out of whack that it becomes an ironic play on how we view everyday items in our lives. American sculptor Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen create works of common objects at enormous scales. Their Stake Hitch reaches a total height of over 53 feet and links two floors of the Dallas Museum of Art. As big as it is‚ the work retains a comic and playful
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Contemporary Art Claes Oldenburg‚ “I Am for an Art‚” 1961 Analysis In Kristine Stiles book‚ Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writing‚ 2nd edition we read about many different writings and ideas of different artists. We are able to look at what ideas these artists had while doing there artworks. We see these different perspectives and are able to get better ideas o what goes through the minds of artists and how they persevere society and the culture around
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Art Appreciation Claes Oldenburg’s clothes pin Vs. Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain The Artist Claes Oldenburg (born January 28‚ 1929) is an American sculptor‚ best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Oldenburg was the creator of the Clothes Pin Sculpture back in the pop art era of 1976. The Clothespin is a weathering steel sculpture; it is currently located at Centre Square‚ 1500 Market Street‚ Philadelphia. The piece of art stands
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exclusive. Participants now can express their ideas and thoughts‚ therefore raising the possibilities of new forms of creativity. John Ahearn’s sculpture project is not only one example focusing on general public. Another eminent Pop artist‚ Claes Oldenburg embodies the concepts of postmodernism in his public artworks‚ such as “Clothespin” and “Dropped Cone”. By creating
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Examine the mass media’s influence on both the formal and iconographic features of American Pop Art. Centre your discussion on one or two examples each of the work of the following artists: Andy Warhol‚ Claes Oldenburg‚ Roy Lichtenstein‚ Tom Wesselmann‚ James Rosenquist. Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from mass culture such as advertising and comic books‚ pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the ideas
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Reminiscent of Dada – found object and happenings Claes Oldenburg “The Street” & “The Store” 1961 located at the Ray Gun Theater What part is nature? What part is new? Found object A “street” and “store front” in a new venue He is not creating‚ these are things are found and are to be viewed as art because of how they are paired. Cardboard burnt and disheveled. Demonstrating a store front‚ view from street. No single focus. Similar to happening dada preformances. Probably still
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