Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg was born on the 28th of  January 1929, he is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Oldenburg lives and works in New York.

In 1956, he moved to New York where he drew and painted while working as a clerk in the art libraries of Cooper-Union. He became interested in environmental art through Allan Kaprow and his "Happenings," and in 1959, had his first one-man show, held at the Judson Gallery, New York where he exhibited wood and newspaper sculpture and painted Paper-Mache objects.

In 1960, he created his first Pop-Art environments and Happenings in a mock store full of plaster objects. Beginning on 1965, he did colossal sized public sculpture such as pairs of scissors, ironing boards, and a typewriter eraser. "Lipstick" was the first to be executed and was placed outdoors on the Yale campus in 1969.
From the early 1970s Oldenburg concentrated almost exclusively on public commissions. His first public work, "Three-Way Plug" came on commission from Oberlin College with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. To me, Claes Oldenburg was accomplished a lot of things through his life.

Their first collaboration came when Oldenburg was commissioned to rework Trowel I, a 1971 sculpture of an oversize garden tool, for the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands.  To me, Claes Oldenburg was accomplished a lot of things through his life. 

Fourth plinth

        

 

The Fourth Plinth is a plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London. It was originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV, but remained bare due to insufficient funds. For over 150 years the fate of the plinth was debated.

  

The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is an empty pedestal that has been empty since 1841.

For over 150 years the fate of the plinth was debated; in 1999, a sequence of three contemporary artworks to be displayed on the plinth were announced

In 1998, the Royal Society of Arts conceived the Fourth Plinth Project, which temporarily occupied the plinth with a succession of works commissioned from three contemporary artists. These were:

Mark Wallinger, who was born in chigwell, London at 1959.

Bill Woodrow, who was born on the 1st of November 1948 near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
 
And Rachel Whiteread, who was born in London, England on the 20th of April 1963.

The Royal Society of Arts late-1990s project concluded that it had been a success and "unanimously recommended that the plinth should continue to be used for an ongoing series of temporary works of art commissioned from leading national and international artists.
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For over 150 years the fate of the plinth was debated; in 1999, a sequence of three contemporary artworks to be displayed on the plinth were announced.

In my opinion I think even though it took quite a long time to decide what to put on the fourth plinth, it's really a good experience watching the fourth plinth



 

Christo and Jeanne claude

Christo was born at Casablanca, Morocco, on the 13th of June 1935. Jeanne-Claude was also born on the 13th of June 1935 but he was born in a place called Gabrovo, Bulgaria and died on the 18th of November 2009.  

Although their work in my opinion is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale. The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to create works of art or joy and beauty and to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes.Both Christo and Jeanne is best known for producing enormous packaging projects: he wraps parks, buildings, and entire outdoor landscapes.

Christo has collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude for over 40 years on these projects. The two earn the huge amounts of money required to execute their monumental works by executing and then selling preparatory drawings to collectors and dealers. Christo  typically creates temporary wrappings generally lasting several weeks on a vast scale. Borrowing land, structures, and spaces used and built by the public. 

In Christo’s printed and three-dimensional work, Christo wraps an object, challenging the viewer to accurately remember the concealed object and giving it the notion of rarity because it is inaccessible.

Wrapping historic structures in silvery fabric and blue cable has become a famous tradition for Christo and Jeanne-Claude.


   

Evaluation - Fashion project

  
Usually, at first my thoughts on receiving the second assignment brief was quite interesting because I wanted to see where I’m developing from my first assignment. I collected some information from different artistic views and which I tried to explain in my own words. Some of the researches I took for e.g. Man Ray's Photography were monochrome colours, nearly every single image that he has produced are more focused on filter paper than any other.

At my fashion photography class, I found it quite difficult until I found out 3 minutes after my teacher explain to me what to do, the work I was given was to use the method on how to develop a film by using a agitator, the funnel top, the film reel and the developing tank and other various objects during the fashion class, also I tend to use a lot of work time.

I found that seeking and handling the information was quite difficult because when I needed to find the specific information for each one especially Gordon Parks, his work that he has done has mostly produced mono Photography, it took me quite a long time in the to gain more of the information I needed. I think that the elements of my research that inspired my designs were the line, shape and form in terms of photography that I done.

What I found difficult on my work is how I tried to put the cap, the agitation rod, the funnel top, the film reel and the developing tank in place with the following steps in terms of when I was loading the film inside a black bag which I couldn't see inside of.

In my opinion, my first thoughts on receiving this assignment, was complicated because I thought because I didn’t do as well as I thought on my first assignment but now I feel like I can do quite better on the second assignment that I just finished.

Each of my Individual work on this assignment especially in the lesson on the magazine cover when we had to design a stencil drawing on art deco and on art nouveau. In my opinion, this task has been unsuccessful.

 To be honest, before I didn't think my designs would be high quality, but then at the end, I was more than satisfied with some of my designs which I put more quality into. On the other hand, I do feel that I could have improve some of my work to a high standard like improving every single mistake that I have committed on the assignment on street fashion project, that way I would have earned more marks on my second assignment, instead I could be getting a grade that I'm really not expected to get from my teachers.  

Before we started our I was finding it difficult to pick my designs because some of them were simply not good enough, then I had to create better new magazine cover designs for my final piece. I planned out each of my designs and I picked out the best design on Photoshop. The techniques, process and materials I use to edit my scanned filter and create different colours using Hue and Saturation.

If I had Extra time, the changes that I would make would be to spend a lot on each task in my book at a time by producing quality not quantity. I just completed my work on time. to me, I think I rushed one of the sides which was the last side I did before finishing my second assignment.