Well when he first moved into America he joined a club of artists. They decided they would make a sculpture. He so liked the idea he created his own group that focused on making sculptures. Claes Oldenburg started them off with small plaster models of sculptures and then after perfecting them time after time he disscussed with them about the idea of making a large-scale sculpture. The club liked the idea so much they couldn't refuse. And from then on he made large sculptures as work.
Claes Oldenburg uses a variety of materials for his sculptures. Here are three examples that are most commonly used in his sculptures: - acrylic and pencil on foam-filled canvas with wood, cord, and plaster (used as one). - painted stainless steel and fiber glass. - Cor-Ten steel painted with polyurethane enamel.
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Pop art He was a Pop Art painter, but he did not found that movement.
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no he did pop art
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no he did pop art he liked to work big with sculptures
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg uses a variety of materials for his sculptures. Here are three examples that are most commonly used in his sculptures: - acrylic and pencil on foam-filled canvas with wood, cord, and plaster (used as one). - painted stainless steel and fiber glass. - Cor-Ten steel painted with polyurethane enamel.
Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg.
Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a world-renowned Swedish-born sculptor whose most memorable public art works are his colossal, interactive sculptures of everyday objects.He studied art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.His brash, humorous art is associated with the Pop Art movement, presented to the public through staged happenings in the 1960s, and still enjoys an enduring popularity.It so happens that he is one of only six artists from our planet to have his work displayed in the Moon Museum, on the moon!See the link(s) below:
Claes Oldenburg is known as a Pop Artist Sculptor. You can find many of his works around the world in public locations as well as museums. His sculptures are oversized scale versions of common objects like stamps, garden hoses, typewriter brushes, etc.
Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns. There are loads but if you go to http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pop.html then there is an index of all the artists involved in the pop art movement
Some well-known artists in the Pop Art movement in the U.S. are Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenberg, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, and Keith Haring.
The reason its called pop art is because the artist intention is meant to make the art pop out at you. Most of the time though it doesn't work.
Pop-Art was an art movement in the United States and Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, and as such, there was not one specific Pop-Artist. Pop-Art also encompassed a range of media from painting, to collage, to sculpture, etc. Some famous Pop-Artists were: Andy Warhol Jasper Johns Claes Oldenburg Roy Lichtenstein Richard Hamilton Robert Rauschenberg George Segal