claes oldenburg himself

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry

The really radical portrayal of empty Marylyn is Claes Oldenburg's Ghost

[Claes Oldenburg (Portrait with Cake Slices), 1966]

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown



It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller



Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson



Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Dropped Flower, 2006,Polyurethane

Below are some photographs of Oldenburg installations.

Claes Oldenburg, Robert Watts and Warhol and created the "art for

About the Artist: Claes Oldenburg's Inverted Q (TP) White, 1988,

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881



One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640



The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright



A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost

Claes Oldenburg - 'Split Button'

claes oldenburg himself. Bogart and Claes Oldenburg.

claes oldenburg himself. Bogart and Claes Oldenburg.

with his tongue stamped "Wedding Souvenir, Claes Oldenburg," 1966, 2009,

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640



Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.  ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson



A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown



Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby



Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.  ~Dan Bennett

Balancing Tools by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Claes Oldenburg Artist Page [Art Observed]

Gotta love Claes Oldenburg. Public art

borrowed from http://serurbano.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/claes-oldenburg/

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz



He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland



You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~Ogden Nash



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg best known for his simple and iconic works of 4

Claes Oldenburg/Bicycle Wheel. I ran across the video below of “the world's

One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b

A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown



He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland



Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith