Word: oldenburg
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...suggestion that the Rand Corp. help him move the land mass of the British Isles into the Mediterranean. Others, like Iain Baxter's dream of a radio-controlled inflatable cloud patrolling over Los Angeles, never got off the ground. Some business firms became nervous and balked. Claes Oldenburg's collaboration with Disneyland began with his intense curiosity about "what people who have been making animals without genitalia for 30 years are like," and ended with Disneyland abandoning his project for a giant, hydraulically operated icebag...
...Oldenburg, it was feared, might impair the playland's image as "a family-oriented operation." Fortunately, the Gemini company (TIME, Jan. 18) stepped in to sponsor the icebag. Puffing and rearing to its full 18-ft. height like some cross between Mount Fuji, a tomato and a dinosaur, it has turned out to be one of the key works in Oldenburg's brilliant career...
...Schwitters was also possessed by that Faustian drive that today can be seen in Claes Oldenburg: the ambition to turn the whole world, bit by bit, into an immense objet trouvé. Thus his radical invention of environmental art. Schwitters' Merzbau (or Merz-house) in Hannover was the first great work of its kind, integrating assemblage, painting and architecture. Its convolutions reached through two floors and four rooms of Schwitters' home, with a separate offshoot in the attic. It was as if he had deposited the cells and memories of his own brain, wrought out in a coral...
From the worn-out loafers to the signatures of his friends, the show offers an unusually personal view of an artist. Dine never really belonged to Pop art, though he has often been identified with it. He rode the same swift wave to success as Oldenburg, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Wesselmann, shared their conviction that the vocabulary of abstract expressionism was all but exhausted, and gave the object a primary place in his painting. But where Pop's lifeblood was popular imagery, Dine used objects that had figured in his own experience. Where Pop was social, analytical, sometimes bitterly satirical...
...Plastic pies, soup cans and comic-strip images by Warhol, Rosenquist, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg crop up in a show at Sidney Janis' Manhattan gallery and pop art arrives...