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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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Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is a renowned American sculptor, known for his large-scale public art installations. His works are inspired by everyday objects, reimagined and magnified to create both familiar and unfamiliar visual experiences. more

“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.”

Littles Said Shows Stuff Figures Objects Strange Painting My Friends Tradition Planning They Said Old Fashioned Figure Painting

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“The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.”

People World Art Together Party Art World Commercialism

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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.”

New York Commerce Very Happy Present Time

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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.”

People Firsts Artist Party Scene Ten Shoes Drawing Warhol Illustrators

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