Happy birthday, Claes Oldenburg! 90, today! Here are some of his marvelous sculptures highlights from his wonderful “Ode to Possibilities“:
“I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top.”
“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary.”
“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”
“I am for all 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.”
