APW - Robert Rauschenberg (420 hits)
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Submitted by kaos-king (antius777) (View user info) at 2006-09-13 14:22:36 EDT
Artist Robert Rauschenberg was Texas born in 1925. He discovered his talents while in the navy and afterwards attended both the Kansas City Art Institute and the Academie Julian in Paris. In 1948 he enrolled at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where one of his professors was the legendary Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. Albers sense of control and rigid discipline where so though out that Rauschenberg sought to be the exact opposite. In fact, he was more inspired by faculty member, the composer John Cage, and Rauschenberg produced a group of paintings called "The White Series" based of his influence.
In 1952 he created the concept of the so-called "Combine Paintings," which allowed him to collage found fabrics and materials onto his canvas and paint expressionalistcally over it all. Occasionally his work was referred to as "Neo-Dada," much in the same way Jasper Johns and Marcel Duchamp's art works were. Although his art often spoke of the observer's consciousness in determining what the art ultimately meant, He took the opposite stance for a change in 1961. Called upon to create a portrait of the the gallery's owner, Iris Clert, for an exhibition, he merely sent in a telegram stating "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so."
By 1962 Rauschenberg was using found imagery and silk screening in his artistic process as well as found objects. He would duplicate images over and over again on various fabrics and media. He was considered a fore-runner to the Pop movement with Jasper Johns and Sigmar Polke, a genre that Andy Warhol would later ride to international fame In 1967 he and Bill Kluver would create the "Experiments in Art and Technology" a non-profit organization established to promote collaborations between artists and engineers. He has worked over the years in performance art, printmaking and won a Grammy for creating the "Speaking In Tongues" album cover for The Talking Heads. He still lives and works today from his home in Florida.
"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world." - Robert Rauschenberg
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Submitted by Sepsis (user info) at 2006-09-21 20:24:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
teh plageurismz
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2006-09-13 19:41:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It doesn't do anything for me :(
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-09-13 17:52:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
APW
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-09-13 15:46:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-13 15:37:48 (#)
Ranking: 1
I hate to do this, but this stuff is just not that inspiring to me.
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I understand totally. His work is kinda... under-developed, if you will. Sigmar Polke took it to the next level, and Dave McKean has brought it into the digital age. Rauschenberg did it all first, however, and I felt like I had to give him a shout out.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-13 15:37:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I hate to do this, but this stuff is just not that inspiring to me.
And it even has a BMX bike in there.
Still ... it's reminiscent of those collages we used to have to do in 8th grade, using National Geographic magazines and Elmer's paste.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-09-13 15:25:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
good stuff.
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-09-13 15:14:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i likey
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-09-13 15:06:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Don't get me wrong, I dig where this guy's coming from, and the idea behind creating the works.
The quote at the end really says a lot about the creative process as a whole.
There's just something about these pieces that doesn't really pull me one way or another.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:59:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Dave McKean's APW - http://www.ubersite.com/m/87170
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:58:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
See, guys like this and Sigmar Polke really inspired me back in school.
I love the concept of working mixed media, Dave McKean being the modern day equivilent.
And I worship Dave McKean like a living Deity...
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:50:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i don't like it, but it's art so... auto +2.
ps, i suck at collages hehe.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:45:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:44:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:40:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:35:38 (#)
Ranking: 2
Not my favourite but its APW so auto +2
Submitted by I_love_Kracka (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:36:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
auto +2 texas
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:35:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Not my favourite but its APW so auto +2
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:27:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-09-13 14:27:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
pretty.