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The ultimate "Bathroom" artwork is this "Soft Toilet." Oldenburg's soft sculptures from the 1960s are some of his most enduring works. One reason is that they resemble so closely the drawing style of ...
Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known around the world for his whimsical public sculptures depicting everyday objects—a clothespin, a spoon with a cherry, and even a toilet—has died at age 93.
There is even a larger than life toilet, made of vinyl ... The Walker's "Three-Way Plug, Scale A, Soft, Brown," foreground, is part of the Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties exhibit, which includes ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg ... 2009. Oldenburg’s first wife, Pat, also an artist, helped him out during their marriage in the 1960s, doing the sewing on his soft sculptures.
Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-born artist whose “soft sculptures” of hamburgers and ice cream cones and oversized renderings of everyday things — including lipsticks and binoculars as big as ...