Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor (born in Stockholm, Sweden) who specialises in installing public art, making small, everyday objects massive. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen who died in 2009. Claes now lives in New York. Because he is a sculptor, he doesn't edit his work as such. In stead of manipulating an image he more has to look for different materials to make these giant structures out of. Back in the 1950s-60s, he mainly used cardboard to create sculptures like wall reliefs, hamburgers, pastries, men and women's clothing, etc.
In the 1960's he began making soft sculptures which is a type of sculpture made from foam rubber, cloth, plastic, fibres, paper and similar materials that are subtle and non grid. But back then he made household objects out of vinyl or canvas stuffed with kapok.
In 1965, he was still working in vinyl, plaster and cardboard making large works called colossal monuments.
Ever since the 1970s, Oldenburg has been making his sculptures in more durable materials like steel.
I think that his work is pretty cool. It takes the little, unnoticed things in the world and makes them big and seen. It's almost like making a statement and showing that even though you don't always see them these things are always around.
Claes didn't seem to have some deep meaning behind his reason for sculpting these giant sculptures except for the fact that he liked them.
It would be awesome to see one of Claes' works because they are very extraordinary. Art in regular places that appears out of place always strikes my interest. I think his art is aimed at anyone to enjoy and see. Different people would like it for different reasons. For example, a child could like his work because it's something they've never seen before but an adult might like it because it makes them appreciate the object.
If money wasn't an issue, I don't think I'd buy one of Claes' works simply because I have no where big enough to put it. Maybe I'd buy it and donate it to someone or sell it.
Here is some of his work:

This is my favorite piece of his work, I think it's awesome because it sort of fits in to it's surroundings (not literally of course). It sort of looks like a bridge and reminds me of a scene in a film I watched. I don't know if it's because of the photo itself that makes it look like this, but the colour of the cherry really stands out without looking vulgar.

Recreation of iconic painting homework

For my homework, I chose to recreate the painting The Son of Man by Rene Magrittees. 

Here is my photograph mimicking the above painting:

The above image is the most similar to the original but I wanted to make it a little more my own. To do so, I tried out a couple of filters and the results looked pretty cool: 

Super-imposed edible landscapes (edited)

Super-imposed edible landscapes all photos

Pierre Javelle&Akiko Ida

Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida are photographers who uses mainly fruits and tiny sculptures of people to create interesting photo's. I think his pictures are really interesting and it amazes me how they can come up with so many ideas of how to use the fruits. For example, I think the picture of the kiwi is genius, I know I'd never have been able to come up with the idea that the hair of a kiwi resembles grass and a tiny man could be mowing it with his tiny lawn mower. The images they produce are almost dream like. I think they create this feel to them using an effect similar to tilt-shift which makes the tiny people sculptures look real and life-like and instead of tiny people there's just giant food.
Here are some examples of their work:

The other thing I like about Pierre and Akiko's work is that you don't require to like in a certain place or environment or wait for a certain time of day to take these pictures. The props are always there in general stores to be accessed by anyone, this means that it's their creativity that makes these pictures awesome rather than a good camera and a good location.

Transforming objects into drawings (Homework)

I had a lot of fun experimenting with this homework, at first I was unsure of ideas but once I'd gotten into it it was great.