Claes Oldenburg celebrates the common object by recreating it in material form. Whilst we are able to reify ourselves with such objects or rather ‘art’ it can be seen that Pop art has a significantly different agenda to that of Fluxus. Whilst Fluxus inherently strives for an art that is no longer considered art, in which no terms can be applied. In contradistinction to Fluxus, Pop artists considered painting and sculpture were different from that of the readymade object. With reference to Claes Oldenburg (in Art since 1900):
‘I am for an art that is political – erotical – mystical, that does something
other than sit on its ass in a museum…I am an 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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