Word: oldenburg
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...Bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads," wrote the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, reflecting on the nature of classical sculpture. And who sums that up better than Antonio Canova (1757-1822)? Canova is not to modern taste, and probably never will be. When alive, he was the epitome of the neoclassical style, the most admired marble carver in Europe; connoisseurs shed tears of delight before his work. His Head of Helen, Byron wrote, showed "Above the works and thoughts of Man/ What nature could, but would not, do,/ And beauty and Canova...
...give time, effort and artwork to charity," he notes. "But almost no one turned us down." Over several months LaBell enlisted the help of more than 200 art dealers, museum directors and artists, who donated work to be sold, including Annie Leibovitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. To eliminate administrative costs, LaBell persuaded everyone from catalog photographers to an insurance company to give their services to the project, dubbed "Art for Children's Survival...
...other hand, the early work of James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg has lost none of its power. With Oldenburg the vitality comes from his wild metaphors of the world as body -- hard things drooping into softness, small things turning mountainous, a vision that seems to reach back to Bruegel and can make a crude enlarged plaque of some cuts of supermarket meat look like the site of a massacre. With Rosenquist, it is the crude oppositions, engrossing in their pure Americanness. The woman's face rising out of an orange swamp of spaghetti in I Love You with My Ford...
...excellent works of art proliferate, from Cubist collages to exquisite, large-scale paintings by Cy Twombly and some of Robert Rauschenberg's early combines, like Rebus, 1955; from James Rosenquist's room- size F-111, 1964-65, and a reassembly of some of the passionate, gaudy fragments from Claes Oldenburg's Store of 1961-62 to Brancusi's phallic bronze, Princess X, 1916, and one of the greatest of all Legers, The City...
...showcase for internationally known architects such as Richard Meier, Arata Isozaki and Jose Rafael Moneo. "It's an orgy of creativity," says Mayor Pasqual Maragall, grandson of Catalonia's most famous poet. A former lecturer in urban planning at Johns Hopkins University, Maragall invited such American artists as Claes Oldenburg and Ellsworth Kelly to make sculptures for a new park system that has become an international model of city planning...