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Giant Soft Fan (1966 – 67) by Claes Oldenburg is an iconic piece of Pop Art that reflects the artist’s fascination with transforming everyday objects into playful, large-scale sculptures. This piece is part of his broader exploration of soft sculptures, a form he pioneered in the 1960s.
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Henri Matisse’s stained glass work, Nuit de Noël or Christmas Eve (1952), is a vibrant example of the artist’s later experimentation with bold colors and forms, and very much influenced by his extensive work with paper cut outs.
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“To be a visionary designer, I want to design products for myself first,” designer Kazuo Kawasaki has admitted. After a car accident left him partially paralyzed at age 27, Kawasaki created the Carna Folding Wheelchair for himself in 1989. Rather than resembling a piece of medical equipment, his vision was for it to become part of his wardrobe. Continue reading Eye On Design: Kazuo Kawasaki, Carna Folding Wheelchair
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In this monumental canvas that Fernand Leger worked on from 1921–22, three seemingly self-possessed women, flanked by a black cat, lounge in an interior decorated with modern furnishings. Their bodies – modeled so that they seem to reflect the light – appear as metallic as the stylized furniture that surrounds them. Leger orchestrated the interlocking components of this busy composition as if it were a machine, imparting an industrial sensibility into the domestic sphere.
Photographed in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Robert Indiana (1928 – 2918) aspired to become “an American painter of signs,“ noting that “for the last five years I have lived and worked on the Slip and the waterfront, where signs are much more profuse than trees.“
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