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CLAES OLDENBURG
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Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Sweden, but grew up in the United States. His family settled in Chicago, where his father was the Swedish consul-general. His mother had been a concert singer. Oldenburg attended a private school in Chicago before entering Yale University in 1946. He took only a few art classes during his senior year and received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Writing was Oldenburg's main interest at this time, so when he returned to Chicago, he worked as a newspaper reporter until 1952, when he entered the Chicago Art Institute to study art. He became an American citizen in 1953.
Oldenburg was an art editor and illustrator for a Chicago magazine from 1955 to 1956. One of his duties during that time was drawing comic strips for the magazine. In fact, Oldenburg is the only Pop artist to have professionally drawn comics, despite the importance of the comics to other pop artists, primarily Warhol and Lichtenstein.
In 1956, Oldenburg moved to New York City. He worked part time at the Cooper Union library, shelvin
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Claes Oldenburg
Swedish-born American sculptor (1929–2022)
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. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. Oldenburg lived and worked in New York City.
Early life and education
Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm,[3] the son of Gösta Oldenburg[4] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss.[5] His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago. He studied literature and art history at Yale University[6] from 1946 to 1950, then returned to Chicago where he took classes at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While further
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Summary of Claes Oldenburg
With his saggy hamburgers, colossal clothespins and giant three-way plugs, Claes Oldenburg has been the reigning king of Pop sculpture since the early 1960s, back when New York was still truly gritty. In 1961 he rented a storefront, called it The Store, and stocked it with stuffed, crudely-painted forms resembling diner food, cheap clothing, and other mass-manufactured items that stupefied an audience accustomed to the austere, non-representational forms in Abstract Expressionist sculpture. These so-called "soft-sculptures" are now hailed as the first sculptural expressions in Pop art. While his work has continued to grow in scale and ambition, his focus has remained steadfast: everyday items are presented on a magnified scale that reverses the traditional relationship between viewer and object. Oldenburg shrinks the spectator into a bite-sized morsel that might be devoured along with a giant piece of cake, or crushed by an enormous ice pack. His work shows us just how small we are, and serves as a vehicle for his smart, witty, critical, and often wic
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