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There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
Claes Oldenburg
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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
Designer
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Sthlm
Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Claes Thure Oldenburg
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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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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.
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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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All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
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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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The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
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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 was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.
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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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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 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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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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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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I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
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I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.
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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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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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