Robert Rauschenberg died

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He was 82. (http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9244702)



http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/modules/input_output/Pop/images/R_Rauschenberg_Bed_1955.jpg


http://www.moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/283_1994_CR.jpg


http://z.about.com/d/arthistory/1/7/E/S/rrc_02.jpg

[Waus]

Someone must have messed up all his nice paintings in a fit of grief. :(

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BLASPHEMY

[Waus]

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/9746/ef1220bstlouissymphonyoxo7.jpg

Amends?

[MC Moot]

R.I.P...absolutley,positively one of my all time fave mixed medium artists...an american lithograpghy genius...(y)

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x265/mcmoot/rauschenberg.jpg

[cutter]

R.I.P.
One of the great artist of our time!
He was truly an innovator in printmaking, combines and painting. He will be missed!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d136/cutter317/Rauschenberg_Monogram.jpg

[MC Moot]

"In 1953, Rauschenberg stunned the art world by erasing a drawing by de Kooning."

Anyone one know why?...de Kooning was awesome...:confused:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning

[Waus]

Because fuck de Kooning, that's why.

[MC Moot]

yeah no shit jeeves,like Picasso making mache with Dali drawings...but what's the origin of the disrespect?

[b-grrrlie]

R.I.P.
One of the great artist of our time!
He was truly an innovator in printmaking, combines and painting. He will be missed!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d136/cutter317/Rauschenberg_Monogram.jpg
This is at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm...

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"In 1953, Rauschenberg stunned the art world by erasing a drawing by de Kooning."

Anyone one know why?...de Kooning was awesome...:confused:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning



de Kooning cooperated. He was famous; at that point, Rauschenberg was up-and-coming.

Rauschenberg asked him specifically for a drawing which he would then erase. (Sort of a passing the mantle sort of thing). So de Kooning decided
if he was going to do it, he wanted to create a drawing he would truly miss. He used various mediums so it would be a real bitch to erase,
but Rauschenberg spent a couple months (I think) on it and pretty much got it to where there was no trace of it.


I've read different accounts about whether de Kooning resented it or not. But he did fully participate.

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Because fuck de Kooning, that's why.



MORE BLASPHEMY I CAN'T
BELIEVE YOU SOMETIMES

[MC Moot]

de Kooning cooperated. He was famous; at that point, Rauschenberg was up-and-coming.

Rauschenberg asked him specifically for a drawing which he would then erase. (Sort of a passing the mantle sort of thing). So de Kooning decided
if he was going to do it, he wanted to create a drawing he would truly miss. He used various mediums so it would be a real bitch to erase,
but Rauschenberg spent a couple months (I think) on it and pretty much got it to where there was no trace of it.


I've read different accounts about whether de Kooning resented it or not. But he did fully participate.

gracias profesor...(y)

I have this in transit to my local library....

https://catalogue.calgarypubliclibrary.com/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1N10791035X7D.10281&profile=testa--1&uri=link=3100039~!802236~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab100&menu=search&ri=4&source=~!cpl_production&term=Off+the+wall+%3A+a+portrait+of+Robert+Rausche nberg+%2F&index=PALLTI#focus

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That's cool.

Only 16 pages of plates though? That's a little skimpy.

the first Rauschenberg I ever was aware of was that nutty package design he did for Talking Heads' Speaking in Tongues. It delayed
the release, it was just a bit to big for regular record shipping boxes, and Byrne had to scramble to put together a conventional package.

I snagged one of the plastic ones. Clear vinyl inside a plastic shell that had three different plastic inserts (RGB, I think) that you could
spin and make different collages with.

The thing fell apart so fast. :D

[MC Moot]

^nice,that's a shame though...I imagine it's Ebay value has undergone a significant if not astronomical increase...:rolleyes:

[MC Moot]

shiiiittttt....(y)

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=819255

I wonder if he had anything to with the imagery for "Stop Making Sense"?

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^

That's the one.

If I remember right, he put it together from photos David Byrne took. And I think some of the photos wound up among the slides for
Stop Making Sense. The couch that's on Byrne's cover -- that was the only image on the Rauscheberg that would completely line up
if you spun all the inserts to hook up.

[Waus]

MORE BLASPHEMY I CAN'T
BELIEVE YOU SOMETIMES

I was just quoting Good Will Hunting, but yeah - heretic etc.

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Ah!

Gotta go with the wrench.
















































BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR
THAT THIS WASN'T SURGERY --
THAT THE FUCKER STABBED ME
YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR
THAT SHIT, SKYLAR

[MC Moot]

Good stuff..."Rauschenberg: Forever Curious"... (http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at)(y)