Scale Models

Scale Model Example

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:01:26 -0400

Title	Scale Model Example
Author	ilenemojsilov

Scale Model Example

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:06:58 -0400

Title	Scale Model Example
Author	ilenemojsilov

Art Lab: Scale Models

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Art Lab: Scale Models
Author	Walker Art Center
Date	2008
Institution	Walker Art Center

In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of size and distinguish between life-size and an increased or decreased scale in art. They'll draw a household object in three sizes and turn the drawing into a soft relief sculpture.

Art lab lesson plans are presented as PDF files that you can view with the ArtsConnectEd image viewer or download to your computer. Use the Prev/Next buttons to move between the images of a PDF and the actual file.

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen — Sat, 01 Jun 1985 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Spoonbridge and Cherry
Artist	Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen
Date	1985-1988
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

A large spoon with a cherry suspended on the rim. Water exits the cherry from both ends of the black cherry stem. Sculpture weighs approximately 7000 lbs..

View of Spoonbridge and Cherry, with Sailboat and Skater

Claes Oldenburg — Wed, 01 Jun 1988 00:00:00 -0400

Title	View of Spoonbridge and Cherry, with Sailboat and Skater
Artist	Claes Oldenburg
Date	1988
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

title was changed from View of Spoonbridge and Cherry, with Sailboat and Running Man to current title on August 28, 2006

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Spoonbridge and Cherry
Creator	Walker Art Center
Date	1998
Institution	Walker Art Center

The centerpiece of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Spoonbridge and Cherry was commissioned especially for the site from the artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

Coosje van Bruggen:
"And scale is one of the most difficult things to determine. Scale is the proportion of the object in comparison to other things in the surroundings-buildings, the highway, anything. All of that you have to take into account when you do a public sculpture."

This is a clip from the video Walker 'Round Sculpture (Walker Art Center, 1998).

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985-1988)

Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985-1988)
Author	Walker Art Center
Date	1998
Institution	Walker Art Center

Claes: "Very often I am sitting at dinner and I take out my notebook. I get very inspired when I eat, for some reason."
Coosje: "One of the things that sculptors who work in an urban surrounding think of is scale, the object in comparison to the other things in the surroundings--buildings, the highway, the Cathedral, lantern posts, anything."--Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

A highlight of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the monumental fountain-sculpture Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. While Oldenburg and van Bruggen, his wife and collaborator, have produced a number of large-scale sculptures of everyday objects, such as a flashlight in Las Vegas and a firehouse in Freiburg, Switzerland, Spoonbridge and Cherry is their first fountain sculpture. The giant spoon stretches 52 feet across a small pond shaped like a linden tree seed. A fine stream of water, just enough to make the aluminum cherry gleam, flows over the cherry from the base of the stem. A second stream of water sprays from the top of the stem over the cherry, down into the spoon and the pool below. In winter, snow and ice accumulate on the cherry and the bowl of the spoon, changing the sculpture's character with the seasons. The colossal spoon and cherry required unusual facilities for their construction, and two New England ship-building firms were contracted to build the huge aluminum and steel forms.

Discussion Questions

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:01:26 -0400

Title	Discussion Questions
Author	ilenemojsilov

Shoestring Potatoes Spilling from a Bag

Claes Oldenburg — Wed, 01 Jun 1966 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Shoestring Potatoes Spilling from a Bag
Artist	Claes Oldenburg
Date	1966
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Upside Down City

Claes Oldenburg — Fri, 01 Jun 1962 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Upside Down City
Artist	Claes Oldenburg
Date	1962
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

14 stufffed muslin buildings hang from rack, attached with clothespins and wire hangers

Three-Way Plug — Scale A, Soft, Brown

Claes Oldenburg — Sun, 01 Jun 1975 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Three-Way Plug — Scale A, Soft, Brown
Artist	Claes Oldenburg
Date	1975
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Standing Glass Fish

Frank Gehry — Sun, 01 Jun 1986 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Standing Glass Fish
Artist	Frank Gehry
Date	1986
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Cowles Conservatory

a large fish constructed of glass,

Grass

Richard Stankiewicz — Sun, 01 Jun 1980 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Grass
Artist	Richard Stankiewicz
Date	1980-1981
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Woodrow

Deborah Butterfield — Wed, 01 Jun 1988 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Woodrow
Artist	Deborah Butterfield
Date	1988
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Horse constructed of bronze sticks and branches

Cavaliere (Horseman)

Marino Marini — Wed, 01 Jun 1949 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Cavaliere (Horseman)
Artist	Marino Marini
Date	circa 1949
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers

Barry Flanagan — Wed, 01 Jun 1983 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers
Artist	Barry Flanagan
Date	1983
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Without Words

Judith Shea — Wed, 01 Jun 1988 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Without Words
Artist	Judith Shea
Date	1988
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Big Self-Portrait

Chuck Close — Thu, 01 Jun 1967 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Big Self-Portrait
Artist	Chuck Close
Date	1967–1968
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

self-portrait of the artist

Self-Portrait

Chuck Close — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Self-Portrait
Artist	Chuck Close
Date	2000
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

A self portrait printed in 111 colors.

Kiki

Chuck Close — Tue, 01 Jun 1993 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Kiki
Artist	Chuck Close
Date	1993
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Reverse: keyed stretcher system. Left and right stretcher bars-two D rings each side. Upper and Lower stretcher bars-2 Oz clips each bar. Five plates on horizontal bars to support joins. Stickers: reverse ML: "The Pace Gallery Recent Works Chuck Close October 22-November 27, 1993"

Model for Salute to Painting

Roy Lichtenstein — Fri, 01 Jun 1984 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Model for Salute to Painting
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Date	1984
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Salute to Painting

Roy Lichtenstein — Sat, 01 Jun 1985 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Salute to Painting
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Date	1985-1986
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Terrace

Model for Salute to Painting

Roy Lichtenstein — Fri, 01 Jun 1984 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Model for Salute to Painting
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Date	1984
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Unpainted Sculpture

Charles Ray — Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Unpainted Sculpture
Artist	Charles Ray
Date	1997
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center,

A realistic model of a crashed Pontiac Grand AM

Poster: Charles Ray's Unpainted Sculpture

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Poster: Charles Ray's Unpainted Sculpture
Author	Walker Art Center
Date	2006
Institution	Walker Art Center

Teaching posters focus on a single work in the Walker's collection and include a large image of the artwork, information about the artist, discussion questions, and related resources. You can view posters with the ArtsConnectEd image viewer or download the PDF files to your computer. Use the Prev/Next buttons to move between the images of a PDF and the actual file.

Scale Models

Scale Model Example

Scale Model Example

Scale Model Example

Scale Model Example

Art Lab: Scale Models

Art Lab: Scale Models

Walker Art Center

2008

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Spoonbridge and Cherry

1985-1988

View of Spoonbridge and Cherry, with Sailboat and Skater

View of Spoonbridge and Cherry, with Sailboat and Skater

1988

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Walker Art Center

1998

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985-1988)

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985-1988)

Walker Art Center

1998

Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions

Shoestring Potatoes Spilling from a Bag

Shoestring Potatoes Spilling from a Bag

1966

Upside Down City

Upside Down City

1962

Three-Way Plug — Scale A, Soft, Brown

Three-Way Plug — Scale A, Soft, Brown

1975

Standing Glass Fish

Standing Glass Fish

1986

Grass

Grass

1980-1981

Woodrow

Woodrow

1988

Cavaliere (Horseman)

Cavaliere (Horseman)

circa 1949

Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers

Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers

1983

Without Words

Without Words

1988

Big Self-Portrait

Big Self-Portrait

1967–1968

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

2000

Kiki

Kiki

1993

Model for Salute to Painting

Model for Salute to Painting

1984

Salute to Painting

Salute to Painting

1985-1986

Model for Salute to Painting

Model for Salute to Painting

1984

Unpainted Sculpture

Unpainted Sculpture

1997

Poster: Charles Ray's Unpainted Sculpture

Poster: Charles Ray's Unpainted Sculpture

Walker Art Center

2006