Best known for recasting familiar objects in unfamiliar textures, media, and dimensions, Claes Oldenburg has long challenged his audience to rethink the everyday with works such as French Fries and Ketchup (1963) and Soft Toilet (1966). Oldenburg's masterful drawings reveal another facet of this pioneering artist, inviting viewers to enter his "fantasy' as they explore Oldenburg's relationship with the medium, from sensitive early explorations to veteran campaigns as a refined and accomplished draftsman. Drawing is crucial to Oldenburg's art: drawings note the beginning of an idea; they develop the thought; they give birth to his sculptures. The medium offers a flexibility particularly suited to the artist's extraordinary visions, enhancing the effectiveness of his manipulations of scale and perspective in sculpture. Pieces such as Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park North, N.Y.C.- Teddy Bear (1965); Various Positions of a Giant Lipstick to Replace the Fountain of Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London (1966); Proposal for a Cathedral in the Form of a Colossal Faucet, Lake Union, Seattle (1972); and Blueberry Pie a la Mode, Sliding down a Hill (1996) usher viewers into a chimerical world of the mundane made significant.

Claes Oldenburg Drawings in the Whitney Museum of American Art

Arts & Photography

Lee, Janie C.

Whitney Museum of American Art

OLDENBURG, Claes

Bruggen, Coosje van.

History & Criticism

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

No building was more anticipated than Frank Gehry's stunning new museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Philip Johnson, the dean of American architects, declared it "the greatest building of our time," while Sverre Fehn, winner of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize, called the building "fantastic." Gehry's use of nontraditional materials and his sensitivity to the environments of his buildings is legendary; his method of envisioning a building through semiautomatic drawings and handmade models is little known, but provides an immediate entry into his creative process. This book celebrates the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and details its design process, bringing to life one of Gehry's greatest achievements. Coosje van Bruggen, who has collaborated with Gehry on various architectural and art projects, documents the history of the Guggenheim Bilbao from conception through design and construction. With unique access to the architect and his studio, she uncovers scores of fascinating drawings and working photographs, published here for the first time.

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. [Oct 01, 1997] Gehry, Frank O. and Bruggen, Coosje van. ...

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Gehry, Frank O.

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Inverted Collar and Tie

Sculpture

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Oldenburg and Van Bruggen celebrate a collaboration spanning over thirty years in this large retrospective/exhibition catalog focusing on the close relationship between concepts of sculpture and architecture.

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen Sculpture By the Way, Escultura, Potser Escultura, Tal Vez

Fundacio Joan Miro

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