Claes Oldenburg Sculptures Floor 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.

Claes oldenburg sculptures floor cone.

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. Claes oldenburg in full claes thure oldenburg born jan. 28 1929 stockholm sweden swedish born american pop art sculptor best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects. 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.

Floor cone was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. 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. Mucha recalls taking the work for a drive in a pickup truck along west fifty seventh street where the green gallery was.