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This is Claes Oldenburg ⍢ 'I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete'


Soft Calendar for the Month of August, 1962
(c) The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection. Seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
scan from 'Claes Oldenburg, The Sixties', Prestel, 2012




"My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses." Claes Oldenburg