Claes Oldenburg, Pop artist, 1929-2022
When Pop artist Claes Oldenburg declared he was “for an art that is political-erotic-mystical”, he announced himself as a dissident in a movement otherwise defined by its passion for…
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Appreciation: For sculptor Claes Oldenburg, art was the soul of Pop
For more than a quarter-century, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture stood as a side-street landmark in West Hollywood. An enormous stainless-steel knife blade, 6 feet tall and 12 feet long, sliced…
Claes Oldenburg, the founding father of Pop art, has died
As a Swedish immigrant child in Chicago, Claes Oldenburg dreamed up an imaginary world in intricately detailed drawings. As a founding father of Pop art, he focused on real objects of the…
Artist Claes Oldenburg, maker of huge urban sculptures, dies
Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93. Oldenburg died…
Claes Oldenburg, creator of Pop Art on a giant scale, has died at age 93
The large-scale street art "Saw, Sawing" by Claes…