Word: oldenburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this will work. To take a small, private Renaissance chapel and inflate it to nearly the size of the Baths of Caracalla is the kind of perversity Johnson enjoys but has never been allowed to do on such a scale before. It is architecture mimicking the strategies of Claes Oldenburg. What A T & T will eventually make of this high-camp, post-Pop irony performing as status monumentalism is anyone's guess, but that is what Johnson has produced, and the fact is emphasized by the top of the building-the now famous "grandfather clock" pediment with its round operculum...
...generation on the spot. Progress or reaction? Architecture or revolution? Sheep or goats? Utopia or the dark backside of history? Which do you choose? Now Venturi was arguing for the Either, the Or and the Holy Both, and his text reads rather like the litany that Claes Oldenburg, the most powerful American artist of his generation, had written five years earlier: "I am for art that coils and grunts like a wrestler. I am for art that sheds hair. I am for art you can sit on. I am for art you can pick your nose with or stub your...
Dine outlined his past, mentioning collaborations with Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in 1960s "Happenings." He called his work from this period "art of the insane...
...Dine, at the age of 41, can look back on almost two decades of creativity and success as an artist. Shortly after his arrival in New York in 1959, fresh from the University of Cinncinnati and the Boston Museum School, he met and was influenced by Claes Oldenburg, Jaspar Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. During the 1960s he became a major figure in the movement back to realism that formed in reaction to abstract expressionism...
...Oldenburg does not push his conceptualizing and image generating into such an abyss; he only takes it up to the brink, and looks over. The view is technicolored, panoramic...