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Oldenburg's soft forms, which in his own words possess "many identities," exist in a state of constant permutation, shifting in response to movement or the forces of gravity and creating visual paradoxes as hard metamorphoses into soft. This is a beautiful metaphor for what a postmodern society does to art's implication. I magnified the idea that an art objects meaning is fluid by coupling the idea of the soft sculpture with Voice of Fire, by Barnett Newman, a painting which became a cultural icon of conceptual art in Canada, the country my understanding of these issues began in. |
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