Description:
over life-size four blade table fan with cord loosely wrapped around it on wood base both painted gloss black

Label Text:
This small sculpture of a house fan is a study for two larger sculptures, including the ten-foot tall Giant Soft Fan pictured below (1966–67, The Museum of Modern Art). Unlike the giant version, made of vinyl and suspended from an armature, SCMA’s fan was constructed from paper and cardboard. Over the years, it began to collapse from its own weight. Recent conservation has restored the Museum’s fan as closely as possible to its original appearance.

Oldenburg is known for his sculptures of ordinary household objects and food items, which he enlarges, sometimes to monumental scale, and transforms in materials that alter their shape, form, and function. The representation of mundane, everyday objects is a hallmark of Pop Art of the 1960s.

Tags:
realism

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