Claes Oldenburg Sculptures Floor Cone

Mucha recalls taking the work for a drive in a pickup truck along west fifty seventh street where the green gallery was.

Claes oldenburg sculptures floor cone.

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. 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. 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. 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. Claes oldenburg in full claes thure oldenburg born jan.