Owl rescued from Oldenburg's typewriter eraser sculpture
Don’t erase the owls!
Bree's collage museum had one of these (are there multiples?) and they had to put a plaque next to it explaining what a "typewriter eraser" is because none of the kids had any idea.
Overview
“In the mid-1960s, Claes Oldenburg began to visualize public monuments based on common objects, such as a clothespin or a pair of scissors, instead of historical figures or events. The artist chose the (now obsolete) typewriter eraser as his model for this work based upon childhood memories of playing with the object in his father's office. In the late 1960s and 1970s he used the eraser as a source for drawings, prints, sculpture, and even a never-realized monument for New York City. Here the giant brush arcs back, conveying a sense of motion, as if the wheel-like eraser were rolling down the hill and making its way toward the gate of the garden.”
So, multiple materials ,sizes, and in editions. Good story!
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Owl rescued from Oldenburg's typewriter eraser sculpture
- steve 10-29-2023 9:50 am
Don’t erase the owls!
- bill 10-30-2023 7:43 am [add a comment]
Bree's collage museum had one of these (are there multiples?) and they had to put a plaque next to it explaining what a "typewriter eraser" is because none of the kids had any idea.
- jim 10-30-2023 1:56 pm [add a comment]
Overview “In the mid-1960s, Claes Oldenburg began to visualize public monuments based on common objects, such as a clothespin or a pair of scissors, instead of historical figures or events. The artist chose the (now obsolete) typewriter eraser as his model for this work based upon childhood memories of playing with the object in his father's office. In the late 1960s and 1970s he used the eraser as a source for drawings, prints, sculpture, and even a never-realized monument for New York City. Here the giant brush arcs back, conveying a sense of motion, as if the wheel-like eraser were rolling down the hill and making its way toward the gate of the garden.” So, multiple materials ,sizes, and in editions. Good story!
- bill 10-30-2023 2:48 pm [add a comment]