Floor Cake Claes Oldenburg

Acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes.

Floor cake claes oldenburg. Art gallery of ontario toronto canada. Claes oldenburg floor cake 1962 synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes 58 375 x 114 25 x 58 375 148 2 x 290 2 x 148 2 cm museum of modern art new york. For his seminal 1962 triptych floor cake floor burger and floor cone oldenburg enlisted the help of his first wife patti mucha who used a portable singer sewing machine and heavyweight canvas to sew the covers of these large objects oldenburg then coated the objects surfaces with paint. Floor cake a giant squishy triangle five feet high and nine feet long reverses the familiar relationship between this object and the spectator it looks like it might eat us.

Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food fashioned by the artist in the. Floor burger 1962 acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes creator. 148 2 x 290 2 x 148 2 cm moma speakers. Oldenburg claes b 1929 nationality.

Floor cake 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. 58 3 8 x 9 6 1 4 x 58 3 8 148 2 x 290 2 x 148 2 cm. Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 title. Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes.

Claes oldenburg floor cake 1962 synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes 58 375 x 114 25 x 58 375 in. Claes oldenburg floor cake 1962 synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes 58 375 x 114 25 x 58 375 in.