How did Claes Oldenburg make his sculptures?

Briefly: 1950s-60: earliest work in cardboard and paper, brightly plaster objects, sculptures and wall reliefs, based on hamburgers, pastries, men's and women's clothing etc.

(sold them in his New York East side shop)

1960s on: soft sculptures followed such as household objects made of vinyl or canvas stuffed with kapok. The soft sculptures were a commentry on our material world of objects and our relationship with these objects.

In 1965, still working in vinyl, plaster and cardboard, Oldenburg began making large works termed Colossal Monuments

Since the 1970's, Oldenburg has fabricated his large-scale works in durable materials such as steel,

Claes Oldenburg Soft Sculptures

Not all artists actually construct the pieces themselves. Early in his career, Oldenburg married Patricia Muschinski, who assisted him in many of his sculptures. There is considerable debate as to what role she played in the creation of his work. It is known she was an experienced seamstress and helped him the technical aspects of his soft sculptures, although for reasons that remain unclear, her name is never identified with his work. They later divorced. He is presently married to the art historian and critic, Coosje van Bruggen, who since 1985 has collaborated with Oldenburg on much of his work.

Here is an article written by Oldenburg's first wife. She recounts how she started out hemming his trousers and later became the person that constructed his soft sculptures in the 60s.

get lots of very large cardboard boxes like the ones that refridgerators come in crease them the long way running with the tubing or ripple layers inside of then so the fold easily make a very large pencil. once the barrel of the pencil is made by creasing the cardboard to make six big folds tape the two ends together to form the barrel then make and eraser on one end and a tip on the other. The tip is just a bit piece of cardboard shapes lice a collar the rolled into a cone paint the tip black the body yellow and the eraser red and you have a 6 foot pencil good luck he was one of my favorites because of his sense of humor and his social commentary. l

i'm not sure !!

it dosen't really tell you any thing on the site the teacher gave us

i just guess may be we have to use another site what did you do ??

the site did tell you much on the 1960s!?

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I have a giant lightbulb made for him. in deep river ct, I think, I am looking for that shop.