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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.
Claes Oldenburg
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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
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Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Claes Thure Oldenburg
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The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
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You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
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It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.
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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 work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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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 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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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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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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All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
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My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
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Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.
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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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There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
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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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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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My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying I was remaking them as my own.
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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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Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.
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