Claes Oldenburg Sculptures Floor Cone

28 1929 stockholm sweden swedish born american pop art sculptor best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects.

Claes oldenburg sculptures floor cone.

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. 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 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. 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.

An artist who gained prominence for his large scale installations in public space and moreover for being affiliated with the pop art movement claes oldenburg has made a number of astounding sculptures which are indeed oversized replicas of everyday objects most of those works were realized in close collaboration with his spouse art historian coosje van bruggen. 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. 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.