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Claes Oldenburg By: Brittany Wilson

Claes Oldenburg By: Brittany Wilson. Claes Oldenburg. Birth Name: Claes Oldenburg Born: January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. Nationality: Swedish- American Movement: Pop Art. Background Information. Oldenburg created works or art that were a wonderful blend of reality and fantasy.

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Claes Oldenburg By: Brittany Wilson

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  1. Claes Oldenburg By: Brittany Wilson

  2. Claes Oldenburg • Birth Name: Claes Oldenburg • Born: January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. • Nationality: Swedish- American • Movement: Pop Art

  3. Background Information Oldenburg created works or art that were a wonderful blend of reality and fantasy. Success was partly due to his irreverent humor & incisive social commentary. Used everyday objects such as lipstick, a flashlight, typewriters; and lifted them out of their usual context; and forced viewers to reassess their preconceptions about the objects.

  4. Background Information His father was a member if the Swedish foreign service, Claes and his family moved very often. 1930-1933 the family resided in New York, and then from 1933-1936 they lived in Oslo, Norway. In 1936 the family moved to Chicago, where Claes father served as consul general of Sweden. Oldenburg graduated from Latin School in Chicago in 1946 and then enrolled at Yale University receiving B.A. Degree in 1950.

  5. Background Information While at Yale, his studies were focused on literature and art. In 1950, Claes returned to Chicago, where he remained until 1956. Worked as apprentice reporter at City News Bureau from 1942-1954 where he took classes painting, figure drawings, and anatomy at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. Also attended Oxbow Summer School of Painting in Saugatuck, Michigan, in 1953.

  6. Style of Art • Sculpture, Public Art • Spoon-bridge and Cherry, sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1985–88; in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.

  7. Sculptures Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969-74 Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929; B.A. 1950) Location: Morse College Courtyard Giant Stamp located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Dropped Cone Neumarkt Galerie, Cologne, Germany Stainless and galvanized steels, fiber-reinforced plastic, balsa wood; painted with polyester gelcoat 39 ft. 10 in. (12.1 m) high x 19 ft. (5.8 m) diameter; height above building: 32 ft. 10 in. (10 m) Commissioned by Neumarkt Galerie Installed March 2001

  8. Sculptures Giant Toothpaste Tubes, Art & Dental Hygiene The first tube, made in Venice, California, in 1963 seemed to some people an unconscious self-portrait

  9. Unique Characteristics Oldenburg is best known for his ingenious, oversized renditions of ordinary objects. Like the giant "soft" three-way plug and overturned bag of French fries in the Walker's own collection. Him and his wife and collaborator, had already created a number of large-scale public sculptures (Batcolumn) in Chicago.

  10. Oldenburg is still alive at the age of 82, and is living in New York. Claes Oldenburg

  11. Works Cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg http://caitlincatrose.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/claesoldenburg.jpg http://eatandtalk.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/spoonbridge.jpg http://www.bookrags.com/biography/claes-oldenburg/ http://garden.walkerart.org/artwork.wac http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_does_Claes_Oldenburg_live_today

  12. Works Cited • http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/batcolumn.htm • http://artoutmiami.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/claes-oldenburg1.jpg

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