Claes Oldenberg Food Collages

1st grade has been introduced to the life and the artwork of the artist, Claes Oldenberg. Oldenberg was mostly a sculptor who created huge, larger than life sculptures of everyday objects. The really interesting part about him was that he created this objects so that the public were able to walk on, touch, and climb on which was a very big difference than the sculptures shown in a museum or gallery that are roped off and untouchable. He wanted to have the public interact with his artwork. The students were shown his exhibition, "The Street and The Store", an exhibit in which was included in a retrospective of his life at the MOMA. Included in this exhibit were his "soft" sculptures and clay artworks of food. The students were then told to draw and color in their favorite foods into their sketchbooks to use as a reference when creating their food collages. In Claes Oldenberg's soft sculptures, he created these by painting canvas and then stuffed it with batting. (the stuffing thats on the inside of stuffed animals) The students will follow suit by creating their own colored paper by painting an entire paper. Once these papers are dry each table will use them as the paper to create their food collages. In the next class, the students are given black construction paper, they cut out their plates and paste them onto the paper. Then students take their painted paper and first draw each part of the food, cut it out and paste them together to create a plate of their favorite food.

Learning Objectives: Art History, collage, fine motor skills, painting. 

ART WORDS:
Sculpture: the art of making two- or three-dimensional artwork by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.
Collage: cutting and pasting paper to create an artwork
Large-scale: larger than life objects.


Click here to view the powerpoint on Claes Oldenberg that the students revived in class

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