December 19, 2004 This soft bathtub is by Claes Oldenburg, the pop artist. He could be called, as accurately, a Freudian artist. The doctor would have recognized the motive that has pulsed through the artist's sculpture for the past 40 years. Oldenburg takes weak, wasted things and makes them big.

(For instance: a cigarette butt as big as a sofa.) What's small he makes immense. (For instance: a Swiss army knife as big as a boat. Geography Of India By Majid Hussain there. ) Also, very often, he makes hard things soft. That's what he is doing in this 1966 construction at the Hirshhorn. 'Soft Bathtub (Model) Ghost Version' is mostly foam-stuffed canvas. Its drain is a scribble of pencil lines. The shower head is plaster; the faucets painted wood.

Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost Version, 1966 by Claes Oldenburg. Find this Pin and more on ART by rpotterstudio. The best sculptor in pop art, hands down. Claes Oldenburg, Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost. Quickpic Windows 8. Immunization Program India. Claes Oldenburg 3 Spring by Claes Oldengurg in Cheonggyecheon, Seoul, Korea The Bottle of Notes sculpture in.