Claes Oldenburg Floor Burger 1962

Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 2 13 m diameter collection art gallery of ontario toronto.

Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962.

It s a pleasure to start the week speaking about the king of pop sculpture. The art gallery of ontario purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan. 2 13 m diameter the art gallery of ontario is home to claes oldenburg s work floor burger created in 1962 and purchased by the ago for their permanent collection in 1967. Contemporary art is often controversial via flickr claes oldenburg pop art food.

Floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 4 ft. Oldenburg created the large scale soft sculptures floor burger floor cone and floor cake for the 1962 installation of the store at the green gallery in midtown manhattan. Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. It seemed perfectly natural to me that if you like to touch things you like to touch soft things as well as hard things if you re going to make sculpture out of real things around you then.

1 32 m high. He was born on 1929 in sweden and he naturalized as american citizen. 27 1967 for 2 000. They then tried to donate the bottle to the gallery.

Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 a sculpture that foretold the notion of meatspace decades before the term was coined to distinguish between the physical and virtual worlds. Indeed when the swedish born oldenburg first publicly displayed floor burger or as he originally called it giant burger at an upper west side gallery in september 1962 it was joined by. 16 october 2017 13 april 2018 giada frigerio. Two cheeseburgers with everything dual hamburgers was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style.

Photo by vige and floor burger was no exception. Floor burger claes oldenburg 1962.