Soft Screw in Waterfall
Print
1976 (printed and published)
1976 (printed and published)
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The American Pop artist Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) is famous for sculptures of everyday objects, ranging from hamburgers to typewriters - made to a relatively gigantic scale - out of cloth and soft stuffing. He had a fundamental dislike of printmaking, but when persuaded and assisted by master craftsmen he was able to exercise his talent for drawing through lithography and produce prints that had the same weird qualities of scale and distortion he brought to his sculptures. This is one of a suite of eight gigantic prints of 'soft' screws, each of which Oldenburg prepared for carefully, first making numerous studies and then taking a day over each drawing in the suite.
Object details
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| Title | Soft Screw in Waterfall (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Claes Oldenburg, 'Soft Screw in Waterfall'. From a series of eight lithographs entitled 'Soft Screw', 1976 |
| Physical description | Large screw set in suggestion of landscape freely-drawn in black |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 18/35. From a series of eight lithographs entitled Soft Screw |
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| Summary | The American Pop artist Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) is famous for sculptures of everyday objects, ranging from hamburgers to typewriters - made to a relatively gigantic scale - out of cloth and soft stuffing. He had a fundamental dislike of printmaking, but when persuaded and assisted by master craftsmen he was able to exercise his talent for drawing through lithography and produce prints that had the same weird qualities of scale and distortion he brought to his sculptures. This is one of a suite of eight gigantic prints of 'soft' screws, each of which Oldenburg prepared for carefully, first making numerous studies and then taking a day over each drawing in the suite. |
| Bibliographic reference | Timmers, Margaret (ed), Impressions of the Twentieth Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A's Collection, London, V&A Publications, 2001
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| Accession number | E.758-1976 |
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| Record created | December 21, 2002 |
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