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  http://drawingsandnotes.blogspot.com/2008/05/robert-rauschen...
  203 days ago in Drawings & Notes · Authority: 11

  Robert Rauschenberg [1925 - 2008] Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953 Traces of ink and crayon on paper, with mount and hand-lettered ink by Jasper Johns64.14 x 55.25 cm (bigger picture) links: [obituary New York Times + extensive links from archive NYT] [The Guardian] [Los Angeles Times] [Washington Post] [The Ledger] [Yahoo News] [AP] [MSNBC] [NBC News] [Volkskrant] [Slate] [New Republic] [Wall Street Journal] [ArtReview] links about Erased Drawing: [Tate Etc.] [SF Moma] [Appelogen + youtube] [Temporary Art.org]other links: [New Yorker] [Guggenheim] [PBS American Masters] [Nancy Doyle Fine Art] [Guardian] [Centre Pompidou] [Artcyclopedia][video interview Charlie Rose] Museum of Contemporary Art. Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Podcast: A Conversation between Robert Rauschenberg, Calvin Tomkins & Paul Schimmel (part 1 & 2) and pdf galleryguide] [ArtNet] [Wikipedia] [Space Place]
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  "I do what I do because … painting is the best way I’ve found to get along with myself,..."

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  201 days ago in and it'll be fine · No authority yet

  “I do what I do because … painting is the best way I’ve found to get along with myself, and it’s always the moment of doing it that counts. When a painting is finished it’s already something I’ve done, no longer something I’m doing.” - Robert Rauschenberg (died May 12, 2008. A history and an appreciation of a very interesting man.)
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  Robert Rauschenberg, Artistic Experimenter

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  201 days ago in bookeywookey · Authority: 40

  "Being right all the time can stop the momentum of a very interesting idea." “Everyone was trying to give up European aesthetics... That was the struggle, and it was reflected in the fear of collectors and critics. John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change.” Mr. Rauschenberg, who knew that not everybody found it easy to grasp the open-endedness of his work, once described to the writer Calvin Tomkins an encounter with a woman who had reacted skeptically to “Monogram” (1955-59) and “Bed” in his 1963 retrospective at the Jewish Museum, one of the events that secured Mr. Rauschenberg’s reputation: “To her, all my decisions seemed absolutely arbitrary — as though I could just as well have selected anything at all — and therefore there was no meaning, and that made it ugly. “So I told her that if I were to describe the way she was dressed, it might sound very much like what she’d been saying. For instance, she had feathers on her head. And she had this enamel brooch with a picture of ‘The Blue Boy’ on it pinned to her breast. And around her neck she had on what she would call mink but what could also be described as the skin of a dead animal. Well, at first she was a little offended by this, I think, but then later she came back and said she was beginning to understand.” Robert Rauschenberg, the influential artistic experimenter, died on Monday at 82 years old. Above some excerpts from The New York Times obituary and here's the Washington Post and The Guardian. You can feel the creative energy, the possibilities he saw in the materials around him still bouncing off those canvases. The prince of the unexpected.
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  Innovative Mind Found Art in the Unwanted

  http://obituaries.reviewnews.org/2008/05/15/innovative-mind-...
  202 days ago in Obituaries News Review · Authority: 2

  Robert Rauschenberg, whose feverish inventiveness made him one of the most widely influential artists of the past half-century and whose work erased the borders separating painting, sculpture and printmaking, died Monday at his home in Captiva, Fla. He was 82 and had been in failing health since a heart attack March 26. Read more
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  Rauschenberg Obits: Shades of Degayed

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  202 days ago in Band of Thebes · Authority: 19

  People seem to love controversy and attacks, but let's start with the good news: Christopher Knight's Rauschenberg obituary in the Los Angeles Times is exactly what all the other write-ups ought to be. Knight immediately makes clear that Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were lovers, he acknowledges that Rauschenberg's companion Darryl Pottorf also collaborated with him on his work, and he naturally cites the gay aspects of Rauschenberg's art and why they are important. The candidly titled "Monogram" is also an unconventional declaration of identity. Western art has used goats as a symbol for priapic sexual energy ever since the Dionysian satyrs of ancient Greece -- half man and half goat, always merrily drinking and dancing. The outrageous interlace formed by the goat and the tire astride a landscape of cast-off debris dates from the conformist social atmosphere of the Eisenhower years, when an anti-Communist "Red Scare" was accompanied by an anti-homosexual "Pink Scare." Critic Robert Hughes described the unforgettable "Monogram" as "one of the few great icons of male homosexual love in modern culture" -- the complement to Meret Oppenheim's famous Surrealist sculpture of a phallic spoon in a fur teacup. Unfortunately, Knight stands alone. At the other end of the spectrum is Matt Schudel's obit in the Washington Post. Schudel includes Johns but degays their relationship, omits homoerotism in his flat analysis of Rauschenberg's work, and only cites "companion" Pottorf in his final sentence. Yet while ignoring Rauschenberg's homosexuality, Schudel does discuss the artist's alcoholism, writing, "he consumed more than a bottle of whiskey a day for many years." (No other paper stooped to that.) Likewise, although Mark Feeney writing in the Boston Globe does say Rauschenberg and Johns "became lovers," he disregards the ramifications of that fact and spends more time on Rauschenberg's dyslexia than his homosexuality. In the New York Times, Michael Kimmelman mentions Pottorf midway but disingenuously dances around sex with Johns: The intimacy of their relationship over the next years, a consuming subject for later biographers and historians, coincided with the production by the two of them of some of the most groundbreaking works of postwar art. At least Kimmelman has the sense to examine how an artist's private life informs his work: The process, used for works like “34 Drawings for Dante’s Inferno,” created the impression of something fugitive, exquisite and secret. Perhaps there was an autobiographical and sensual aspect to this. But, really, in 2008 being closety about gay art isn't postmodern, or po-pomo, nor is it understandable or excusable. It's a disgrace.
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  Robert Rauschenberg Erased De Kooning

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  202 days ago in Daily Videos From Videolicio.us - The Daily Video Blog · Authority: 5

  American Abstract Expressionist painter and Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died yesterday at the age of 82.
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  Rauschenberg

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  203 days ago in (news)letter · Authority: 1

  Rest in Peace, Robert Rauschenberg. One of the last presents my father ever got me was this book. This was an artist we could both enjoy. I remember discovering his power through his photographs. Dad and I were on a trip to DC to see the museums, and I was able to turn Dad on to this show. As far as the Retrospective, I was glad to have all thirty of his Dante prints in one place.

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