Claes oldenburg sculpture

Swedish-American sculptor Claes Oldenburg will be remembered as "an extraordinary man" for his impact on the art world and beyond, says art gallery curator and Oldenburg's long-time collaborator Steven Henry.

Claes Oldenburg's 'Floor Burger' will soon go on view at MoMA in a survey of the artist's work. But first restorers tackled its ice-cream carton stuffing and painted-canvas buns

Pop Art Sculpture - Needle and thread at Cadorna Train station square in Milano - Italy by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

The acclaimed pop artist, who has died at age 93, specialised in monumental sculptures where mundane objects suddenly became larger than life

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In 1961, Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto asserting his radical artistic position: “I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.” Soft Toilet, a work that eschews the conventional properties of the art object, does not sit on anything—even a pedestal, like much sculpture—but rather hangs from a metal support. Oldenburg emerged as a Pop artist in the early 1960s with his so-called “soft” sculptures of quotidian objects, such…

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Soft Toilet

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), French Fries and Ketchup, 1963. Vinyl and kapok on wood base, 10 1/2 × 42 × 44 in. (26.7 × 106.7 × 111.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift...