It was Claes Oldenburg’s sense of humour I most enjoyed, and the general lightness of his work. Pop art with a European sensibility. (Which is bit ironic given Oldenburg, though born in Sweden, grew up in the USA.)
If comedy is the highest form of art (because it perforce operates on a meta level: playing on what we already know), as Alva Noë says in his book Strange Tools, Oldenburg is a kind of meta-artist, an artists’ artist, but then perhaps the best art is always about art before it is about anything else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg
