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I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
Claes Oldenburg
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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
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Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
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All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
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I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.
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My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
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Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.
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I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.
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The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
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I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
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Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.
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I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.
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In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.
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I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all.
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I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.
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I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
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Food is like clay you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.
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The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
Claes Oldenburg
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Claes Oldenburg
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, Why don't you show the other stuff? I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.
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