I'm currently taking contemporary art, and a couple of classes ago we got into work by Robert Rauschenberg. The image I posted is an erased de Kooning drawing done in 1953. So what Rauschenberg did was get one of de Koonings drawings and he spent countless hours (I think the professor said 50 but I'm not too sure), using many erasers trying to erase the image. Apparently this was his way of reacting to and against abstract expressionist. I personally do not like this and I'm not too sure about calling it "art". Nonetheless, I think it is interesting and should be brought up. Is erasing what is already art a form of art?
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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I'm currently taking contemporary art, and a couple of classes ago we got into work by Robert Rauschenberg. The image I posted is an erased de Kooning drawing done in 1953. So what Rauschenberg did was get one of de Koonings drawings and he spent countless hours (I think the professor said 50 but I'm not too sure), using many erasers trying to erase the image. Apparently this was his way of reacting to and against abstract expressionist. I personally do not like this and I'm not too sure about calling it "art". Nonetheless, I think it is interesting and should be brought up. Is erasing what is already art a form of art?
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