Claes Oldenburg Floor Cone

Claes oldenburg floor cone 1962.

Claes oldenburg 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. His father was then a swedish diplomat stationed in new york and in 1936 was appointed consul general of sweden to chicago where oldenburg grew up attending the latin school of chicago. In the final version of matisse s painting large reclining nude the curving forms of the arms and the legs create.

Our proposal called for a giant ice cream cone dropped upside down on one of the top corners of the building tilted forward so that melting ice cream would appear to drip over the windows. Claes oldenburg was born on january 28 1929 in stockholm the son of gösta oldenburg and his wife sigrid elisabeth née lindforss. 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.

In claes oldenburg s floor cone what is the purpose of the ice cream cone s exaggerated scale. 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. The ice cream cone as a subject was irresistible to us especially as we detected the word cone concealed in the letters of the city s name.

They proposed a 68 foot high object reminiscent of a matchbook cover. Mucha recalls taking the work for a drive in a pickup truck along west fifty seventh street where the green gallery was located and encountering a warm reception from children in. Floor cone was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style.

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. Despite their simplicity floor burger floor cake and floor cone were groundbreaking artworks. Claes oldenburg s floor cake 1962 entered into the painting and sculpture department at moma in 1975.

Simplified to cone and sphere the sculpture is instantly identifiable as an ice cream cone. Claes oldenburg and coosje van bruggen choose the residential area vall d hebron as the perfect site to install the sculpture.