Claes Oldenburg Floor Cone

Two cheeseburgers with everything dual hamburgers claes oldenburg 1962.

Claes oldenburg floor cone.

28 1929 stockholm sweden swedish born american pop art sculptor best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects. Oldenburg introduced sculpture to pop art beginning with a series inspired by duchamp s readymades and the bluntly prosaic subjects chosen by pop artists like warhol and lichtenstein. The other reason they chose the cone form is the four letters of the term that can also be found in the city s name as well as the artists articulation of consumerism. Floor cake claes oldenburg 1962.

Simplified to cone and sphere the sculpture is instantly identifiable as an ice cream cone. Much of oldenburg s early life was spent in the united states sweden and norway a result of moves his father made as a swedish consular official he was educated at yale university 1946 50 where. Claes oldenburg and coosje van bruggen dropped cone cologne 2001. Working in the gallery oldenburg and mucha made floor burger floor cake and floor cone three oversized soft sculptures i like to work with very simple ideas oldenburg has said.

Claes oldenburg in full claes thure oldenburg born jan. Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food fashioned by the artist in the early 1960s. In 2001 oldenburg and van bruggen created dropped cone a huge inverted ice cream cone on top of a shopping center in cologne germany. Despite their simplicity floor burger floor cake and floor cone were groundbreaking artworks.

1962 claes oldenburg s floor cake 1962 entered into the painting and sculpture department at moma in 1975. Floor burger giant hamburger claes oldenburg 1962. Floor cone is one of three large scale soft sculptures that oldenburg produced with his then wife patty mucha for the second exhibition of the store at new york s green gallery. Claes oldenburg was born in 1929 a remarkable figure of american swedish pop art.

Floor cone claes oldenburg 1962.