Floor Burger Sculpture

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 sculpture.

The work created in 1962 by pop art pioneer claes oldenburg was initially titled giant hamburger. These works might be described as sewn object paintings. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. About 50 art students also.

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. 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. The art gallery of ontario purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan. 27 1967 for 2 000.

Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. His first wife 1960 1970 patty mucha who sewed many of his early soft sculptures was a constant performer in his happenings. 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.