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Espresso Cup Stack (2024)Acrylic painting by Steve White
60 x 60 x 4.5cm (unframed) / 120 x 40cm (actual image size)
£798.84
Original artwork description
Despite extensive investigation - ie, venturing to at least page 5 of a Google search - I cannot definitively confirm that the design of this espresso cup stack originated in Italy, but I wouldn't bet my Ferrari Dino or a Gucci suit against it. Like the iconic Italian designed Moka coffee pot, this cup-stack is a classic piece of stylish Coffenalia: it has colour, form and function. It is the sort of everyday object that Swedish born American sculptor Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) would scale up and use as a bonkers,10 storey high installation in St Marks Square, Venice. A large river-based online retailer will sell you a set of cups like this for around 30 bucks: this set was picked up in a Dutch junk shop for six. If he wasn't so busy painting the Mona Lisa or inventing the helicoter, polymath Leonardo da Vinci would surely have designed it. This cup stack is a living sculpture around which you can literally get your lips. Who'd have thought cups could be so interesting! Slurp.
Materials used:
Acrylics
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 60 x 4.5cm (unframed) / 120 x 40cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Still life
Tags:
#cups#cups and#warhol art#warhollike#cups of
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Original artwork description
Despite extensive investigation - ie, venturing to at least page 5 of a Google search - I cannot definitively confirm that the design of this espresso cup stack originated in Italy, but I wouldn't bet my Ferrari Dino or a Gucci suit against it. Like the iconic Italian designed Moka coffee pot, this cup-stack is a classic piece of stylish Coffenalia: it has colour, form and function. It is the sort of everyday object that Swedish born American sculptor Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) would scale up and use as a bonkers,10 storey high installation in St Marks Square, Venice. A large river-based online retailer will sell you a set of cups like this for around 30 bucks: this set was picked up in a Dutch junk shop for six. If he wasn't so busy painting the Mona Lisa or inventing the helicoter, polymath Leonardo da Vinci would surely have designed it. This cup stack is a living sculpture around which you can literally get your lips. Who'd have thought cups could be so interesting! Slurp.
Materials used:
Acrylics
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 60 x 4.5cm (unframed) / 120 x 40cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Still life
Tags:
#cups#cups and#warhol art#warhollike#cups of
Steve White
Netherlands
About
I started painting, aged 50, after visiting a Wassily Kandinsky exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. I vowed not to fall victim to the infamous New Maths Equation: MODERN... Read more