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Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects.
This is a list of public art by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, also termed their "large scale projects". Oldenburg (1929-2022) and van Bruggen (1942–2009) were married Swedish-American and American-Dutch sculptors (respectively), best known for their Installation art typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects.
The sculptor was known for turning the mundane into the monumental through his over-sized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin, and the iconic shuttlecocks at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Claes Oldenburg and other members of the Art Pop Movement are accredited with the creation of soft sculpture. [2] During this time period members of the Art Pop Movement created art with themes of the times such as pop culture, consumerism, and mass production. [2] Oldenburg specifically would take average everyday items and make them larger ...
In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material. [2] [3] Amongst the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Larry Rivers, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns among others in the United States.
Oldenburg and van Bruggen's signature at the base of the statue. By the late 1908s, Swedish-American artist Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, had made a name for themselves creating large replicas of household objects for public art installations across the globe. [1]
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X is a sculpture of a large-scale typewriter eraser by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. [1] Constructed in 1999, this model is located at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. [2] [3] Other models are also located at Seattle Center near the Museum of Pop Culture, [4] and CityCenter, Paradise.
Pop art is exemplified by artists: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Wayne Thiebaud, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein among others. Lichtenstein used oil and Magna paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics ' Secret Hearts #83.