Claes Oldenburg Floor Cone

Floor cake claes oldenburg 1962.

Claes oldenburg floor cone.

1962 claes oldenburg s floor cake 1962 entered into the painting and sculpture department at moma in 1975. Claes oldenburg in full claes thure oldenburg born jan. Measuring five by nine feet this popular piece of painted cake has been heavily exhibited in the museum and across the united states and has made three transatlantic voyages. Installed at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts in 2011 paint torch is a towering 53 feet high pop sculpture of a paintbrush capped with bristles that are illuminated at night.

Floor cone was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. 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. 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.

Simplified to cone and sphere the sculpture is instantly identifiable as an ice cream cone. Two cheeseburgers with everything dual hamburgers claes oldenburg 1962. Floor cone claes oldenburg 1962. 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.

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. Despite their simplicity floor burger floor cake and floor cone were groundbreaking artworks. 28 1929 stockholm sweden swedish born american pop art sculptor best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects.

In 2001 oldenburg and van bruggen created dropped cone a huge inverted ice cream cone on top of a shopping center in cologne germany.