Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut
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Claes Oldenburg’s (1929-2022) most famous piece of writing is his statement titled “I Am For…” which graced an exhibition catalogue in 1961 and starts:
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 an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. / 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 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.
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