Modern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg,Pastry Case I
All Photos by Gail “I work with very simple things that I come across walking to work,” Claes Oldenburg explained in 1964, “such as a certain kind of pastry… or certain kinds of displays or...
View ArticleVideo Clip of The Week: Roses, “Nude Beach”
A primary reason that I chose “Nude Beach,” by California-based pop trio Roses, for this week’s Video Clip, is specifically because the video contains no nudity! Yeah, they didn’t take the easy way...
View ArticleClaes Oldenburg’s Monumental Paint Brush Sculpture in Downtown Philadelphia!
All Photos By Gail Philadelphia has no shortage of impressive public artworks and engaging street art scattered all over the city, and it’s fun to spend a day just wandering the different...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Soft Calendar for The Month of...
Photo By Gail Claes Oldenburg has consistently embraced contradiction to transform and animate everyday objects. In his art, hard becomes soft, miniscule becomes monumental and, as in Soft Calendar...
View ArticleModern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Profile Airflow
Photos By Gail When Claes Oldenburg was a child, he played with a toy version of the 1937 Chrysler Airflow, the first car designed according to aerodynamic principles. Profile Airflow (1969) was...
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