Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

Born: January 28, 1929
in Stockholm, Sweden

Movies for Claes Oldenburg...

Manhattan Mouse Museum
Title: Manhattan Mouse Museum
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Manhattan Mouse Museum takes a glimpse into the world of American Pop Art icon Claes Oldenburg as he tends to an assembly of small curios, objects, and artworks.
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Title: Who Gets to Call It Art?
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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The Shock of the New
Title: The Shock of the New
Released: September 21, 1980
Type: Movie
A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Title: Roy Lichtenstein
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada, and Purism in referring to signs and objects of contemporary society; Lichtenstein argues for distinctions between himself, Warhol, Oldenburg, and others. In his Long Island studio, Lichtenstein works on an elaborate composition; one of his 4 major paintings on the theme "The Artist's Studio."
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Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Title: Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Gathering inspiration from the world around him, Claes Oldenburg has dedicated his career to giving objects life. What many would see only as their mundane, everyday tools Oldenburg sees as an opportunity for art. His famed large scale sculptures stand with such stature and force that the viewer has no choice but to become involved with the piece.
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Hannah's Haircut
Title: Hannah's Haircut
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Hannah Wilke, upon Tschinkel's suggestion, cuts fellow artist, Claes Oldenburg's hair, which is taped for Tschinkel's Manhattan Cable TV show, Inner-Tube Video. This memorable piece reflects a caring relationship.
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The Great Ice-Cream Robbery
Title: The Great Ice-Cream Robbery
Released: August 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his methods and his relationship with his partner Hannah Wilke.
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Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag
Title: Sort of a Commercial for an Icebag
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
This short film sees the thoughts and process of Claes Oldenburg come to life as he produced the soft kinetic sculptures from his ice bag series at Gemini GEL print studios.
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Heads
Title: Heads
Character: Self
Released: December 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
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Poem Posters
Title: Poem Posters
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 1967
Type: Movie
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others.
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Grimace
Title: Grimace
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera.
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Art of the Sixties
Title: Art of the Sixties
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
This film documents the major directions in modern American art during the first seven years of the 1960s. The keynote is that the artist has expanded his realm from the two-dimentional picture frame, climaxed by the artists of the 40s and early 50s, merged color with sculpture, and sought out modern media to express himself. This has produced the characteristic wide spectrum of interest, ideas, and products in contemporary art.
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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Title: Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Released: February 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Nekropolis I
Title: Nekropolis I
Released: December 30, 1963
Type: Movie
A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.
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Scarface and Aphrodite
Title: Scarface and Aphrodite
Released: December 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on a "Happening" by Claes Oldenburg, with a cast of twenty.
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Voyages II
Title: Voyages II
Released: December 27, 1963
Type: Movie
A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.
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Pat's Birthday
Title: Pat's Birthday
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Breer was influenced by the new performance art and "happenings" making waves in the avant-garde of Europe and New York. He worked briefly with Claes Oldenburg and his performance pieces resulting in a 13 minute film, Pat's Birthday (1962). - AWN
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Fotodeath
Title: Fotodeath
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An experimental film from Al Kouzel which edits unrelated scenes together with a camera tying them together.