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Claes Oldenburg (born 1929)
Pop Art art movement that starts in the 1950’s
Pop artists were angry at this kind of art
It doesn’t look like anything! What does it mean?
Pop artists wanted to make art based on things from “popular culture” so that it would be recognizable and easy to understand
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein
Jasper Johns
Oldenburg’s first jobs (before becoming an
artist) were working in restaurants – fast food
was also becoming popular in the 1950s
Oldenburg wanted to use art to get us to look at ordinary things in new ways
Gravity (and the effects of gravity) is an important element of his soft sculptures
We usually focus on these familiar objects for their uses, but the new context gives them a “contemporary magic”
Scale = how big something is
Oldenburg likes to take ordinary small things and make the MONUMENTAL (or super big!)
Seeing familiar things in unexpected ways
Our art project today: Oldenburg inspired
sandwiches
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