To find this artist, I was craving ice cream so I typed in “ice cream art” and “ice cream sculpture” and I found Claes Oldenburg.
Claes Oldenburg was born in Sweden and has lived in multiple parts of the US including New York City and Chicago. Claus is scupture, his work would be described as avant-garde or whimsical. A lot of his work is installation pieces of oversized mundane objects. He is important to the pop art movement and modern art.
| His artist statement from his website shared with his partner:
Claes Oldenburg: In public sites, our sculptures reflect both the surroundings and their context, but through our imagination and selective perception – which is what makes them also personal. We feel free to use all the approaches that come naturally to our non-monumental works: variations in scale, similes, transformations, a wide range of materials, and, of course, our use of familiar objects. We want to communicate with the public but on our own terms, even if the images are stereotypical. Our dialogue, which leads to the definition of a project, may take place anywhere, but we usually make decisions in our studio where we are surrounded by objects, models, notes, and drawings from the recent past and present, stimulated, whenever possible, by recollected observations of a site. We work our way through one image after another in words and sketches, testing them in models that can serve as the starting point of fabrication in large scale. (1)
http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/biography/bios-team.htm
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