Floor Burger Sculpture

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.

Floor burger sculpture.

The art gallery of ontario purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan. 27 1967 for 2 000. For the new york run of the touring claes oldenburg exhibition that opens at the museum of modern art in april the art gallery of ontario agreed to lend its iconic oldenburg soft sculpture floor burger 1962. 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.

A sculpture whose surface is elaborately and deliberately painted the floor burger should be experienced both as a physical object that occupies three dimensional space and as a painted thing. Hill is talking about the response in 1967 to news that the ago had purchased floor burger 1962 claes oldenburg s deadpan outsize sculpture of a hamburger. 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 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.

Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. The work created in 1962 by pop art pioneer claes oldenburg was initially titled giant hamburger. This brash often humorous approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that by its nature art dealt with profound expressions or ideas. In the run up to the loan the ago decided to publicly exhibit the conservation treatment i was doing on the burger we thought of it as a chance for visitors to see the kind of work.

These works might be described as sewn object paintings. 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. His first wife 1960 1970 patty mucha who sewed many of his early soft sculptures was a constant performer in his happenings.