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The Lonely Palette

Re-ReleaseEp. 49 - Claes Oldenburg's "Giant Toothpaste Tube" (1964)

The Lonely Palette

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

“I am for the art of underwear and the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete. I am for an art that is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.” Today, the art world - and, as he would attest, the world world too - lost a giant, and we're re-releasing our episode from September 2020 in his honor. RIP, Claes Oldenburg, and thank you for plucking art from its spotless frame and returning it to our messy, magnificent plane. Hope you're enjoying that great big floor pie in the sky. See the images: bit.ly/3hcHjVq Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cradle Rock,” “Sylvestor,” “A Little Powder,” “Our Only Lark,” “Town Market,” “Contrarian,” “The Rampart” Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:00.0

Hub and spoke.

0:04.0

Audio collective. We're not going to squeeze it.

0:15.0

No, we're not going to squeeze it.

0:16.4

We're just going to look with our eyes.

0:18.0

This looks kind of like toothpaste, although the red cap makes it look like it's like glue or something.

0:28.0

But it looks like a tube of something.

0:30.0

I want to squeeze it, even though like I know that it's made out of like metal and stuff that isn't squishable but like I really like really want to like jump on it or something, you know, to like touch it.

0:43.0

Get the last little bit out.

0:45.0

It does look like it'd be satisfying to squeeze, like you'd get a big squeeze out of it.

0:49.0

It's not so empty that you need to roll it up from the bottom yet.

0:52.0

It seems like a very like rudiment. that you need to roll it up from the bottom yet.

0:55.0

It seems like a very like rudiment, like if somebody was trying to make a piece of art

0:57.4

out of a toothpaste container,

0:59.2

this is what it would look like.

1:00.2

There's no brand name anywhere.

1:02.3

It's like the toothpaste like vaguely

1:03.8

looks like toothpaste. Toothpaste caps also have lots of bridges like this

1:08.2

looks a little like a fez. I just saw something that I was not expecting to see which is a like person laying out to

1:17.1

Sun tan or something and like their hat is off to the side and they're just like casually like their knees are up a little bit and like they're leaning up they're like leaning up a little bit like on their elbows like up to talk to somebody do you see it yes yeah what is the art to this

1:38.4

well I feel like it's the sort of making it crazy like the everyday you know trying to look at it in a

1:45.8

new way making it so oversized I feel like it feels old tiny you, like this is like the off white, like this is definitely

1:54.9

pepcedent and not like Colgate or aqua fresh, you know.

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