Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen

• Maian Ngo
• Per. 3
• Scuplture Adv.

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Cupids Span
Spoonbridge and Cherry
Saw Sawing
Dropped Cone
Inverted Collar and Tie
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Flying Pins
Torn Notebook
Architects Handkerchief
Balzac Petanque
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Biography

• Oldenburg- born in 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Moved to NY, then Chicago
• Studied at Yale University and Art Institute of
  Chicago
• Van Bruggen- born in 1942 in Groningen, The
  Netherlands
• Masters degree in art history
• Worked at a museum, Amsterdam
• Wrote books on Oldeburgs early work
• Married in 1977, and did over 40 large-scale
  sculptures worldwide.
• Based on everyday objects from popular culture
• Focus art on ordinary objects
• Pop sculptors

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Biography cont.

• 1960s- Oldenburg was one of Americas famous Pop
  artists
• Mainly known for creating large versions of
  everyday objects
• Also known for creating soft versions of hard
  objects
• Made many food slices of cake, ice cream cone
• Later created electric fans, typewriters, toilets

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Timeline
Oldenburg studied literature and art history at
Yale University, from 1946 to 1950.
Oldenburg- born in 1929
Van Bruggen- born in 1942
Oldenburg Moved to America- 1936
1987 and 1990, van Bruggen and Oldenburg also
undertook a series of indoor projects for
European venues
Oldenburg was honored with a solo exhibition of
his work at the Museum of Modern Art in NY in 1969
Their first collaboration was in 1976
Married in 1977
in 1978 van Bruggen moved to New York, where she
continued to work with Oldenburg
The Knife Ship traveled to museums throughout
America and Europe from 1986 to 1988.
Van bruggen 1998 donated a piece of her artwork
for auction to benefit Amnesty International.
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Timeline
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Quotes

• We don't copy the objects we use, we try to
  transform them and we hope they go on
  transforming as you look at them. The idea of
  endless public dialogue.. visual dialogue.. is
  very important to us.
• It doesn't really start with a drawing, but with
  words.
• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of
  death about it.
• Theater is the most powerful art form there is
  because it is the most involving I no longer see
  the distinction between theater and visual arts
  very clearly distinctions I suppose a re a
  civilized disease.

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Soft Shuttlecock, 1995. Canvas, expanded
polyurethane foam, polyethylene foam, steel,
aluminum, rope, wood, duct tape, fiberglass, and
reinforced plastic, painted with latex nine
feathers, each approximately 26 feet long, 67
feet wide nosepiece approximately 6 x 6 x 3
feet. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Partial Gift,
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, New York.
95.4488.
Soft shuttlecock
http//www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_wo
rk_md_121_4.html
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Houseball
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Cast aluminum painted with acrylic urethane
http//www.artnet.com/artwork/423922403/claes-olde
nburg--coosje-van-bruggen-shuttlecockblueberry-pie
s-i-and-ii-detail.html
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Materials

• -steel
• -aluminum
• -epoxy,
• -paint polyurethane foam, plastic materials,
  fiber-reinforced plastic, painted with latex
• Using a variety of materials such as cardbord
  and wood chips, Oldenburg is particularly known
  for his "soft sculptures" that enlarge to huge
  proportions such motifs as hamburgers and
  underwear.

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Works Cited

• http//www.kreysler.com/projects/Oldenburg/oldenbu
  rgprojects.html
• http//garden.walkerart.org/enlarge.wac?id1671
• http//www.grouptravelleader.com/7_2005/nebraska_l
  incoln.html
• http//www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag01/sept01/
  embassy/emb.shtml
• http//arted.osu.edu/160/07_Oldenberg.php
• http//www.nelson-atkins.org/art/KCSP/ArtistBio_Ol
  denburg.cfm
• http//www.dn.se/content/1/c6/50/39/86/konst4_1.jp
  g
• http//www.artquotes.net/masters/claes-oldenburg/o
  ldenburg-quotes.htm
• http//bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Numb
  er/236559/Main/236498
• http//www.artforamnesty.org/view_artist.php?id38
  
• http//artnetweb.com/oldenburg/bio.html
• http//www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/lsp.htm
• http//www.npg.si.edu/cexh/artnews/oldenburg.htm
• http//www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_wo
  rk_md_121_4.html
• http//artnetweb.com/oldenburg/events.html
• http//www.artnet.com/artwork/423922403/claes-olde
  nburg--coosje-van-bruggen-shuttlecockblueberry-pie
  s-i-and-ii-detail.html