The artwork, “Dropped Cone,” is a collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen and was created by Claes Oldenburg in 2001. It belongs to the Pop Art movement and is classified as an installation.
The artwork depicts a large ice cream cone seemingly inverted and dropped onto the corner of a building, symbolizing the playful and whimsical nature typical of Pop Art. The top of the building appears to be “splattered” by the melting ice cream, lending a sense of surrealness and spontaneity to the otherwise rigid architecture. The cone’s exaggerated size, bright orange color, and contrasting white “ice cream” base draw immediate attention and provoke curiosity, effectively challenging traditional notions of art by integrating the mundane with urban space.
