Slog - Comments on Robert Rauschenberg Can Only Be Associated with What's Living http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat Monogram, 1955-59 In the story of art history, Robert Rauschenberg is, among other things, the man who killed Willem de Kooning. In 1953, the young upstart Rauschenberg took a drawing by the elder de Kooning, erased it, and put the blank page on display inside a golden frame for all the world to see. Abstract expressionism was dead and had been swept offstage, and the audience was primed and ready for a new generation—the generation of Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol: Pop. Erased de Kooning Drawing is a breath between movements, a final metaphorical slaying of a... Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 13:04:16 -0800 Wed, 14 May 2008 20:13:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Garth Is this an obituary? Whatever it is, thanks.

]]> Garth http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024518 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024518 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 13:44:28 -0800 Comment by Lord Vader Oh, I don't know, most of his stuff looks like throw-up after a heavy night of drinking and drugging to me.

]]> Lord Vader http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024521 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024521 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 13:44:54 -0800 Comment by Matthew Wow. Thats a great Obit. There are not a lot of folks in my day to day life whom I can share my true admiration for Mr. Rauschenberg without getting some raised eyebrows. Starting in high school and moving all through art school I always felt a strong affinity for all of his work. Particularly some of his later highly technical printmaking pieces. It was very nice to see some of my feelings for his work put so succinctly. Thanks!

]]> Matthew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024540 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 13:50:43 -0800 Comment by max solomon speaking of DeKooning, anyone notice that the best painting in the SAM's collection, DeKooning's "Pink Woman", has been put in storage?

They also have NO Guy Andersons on display.

That's some bullshit.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024545 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 13:53:57 -0800 Comment by boxofbirds A very nice remembrance. Thanks, Jen.

I, too, was shocked, though I guess I shouldn't be considering his age. Though, I hadn't realized that Rauschenberg was as old as my grandfather, who also died just recently. It is a testament to the power of his ideas and their contemporary resonance that in my mind's eye Rauschenberg is still an iconoclastic twenty-something.

]]> boxofbirds http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024627 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 14:31:38 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I just liked Rauschenberg because he used a lot of brown. I like brown.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024692 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024692 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00:55 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Thanks Jen, that was great.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024822 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024822 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 16:00:06 -0800 Comment by fan of fnarf Great artist, great good bye.

Too bad his impact is not as appreciated now. ANd too bad every emo, art school cunt copies him endlessly.

]]> fan of fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024926 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1024926 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 16:50:32 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell It's hard to think of him as EIGHTY-TWO. Jesus Christ, when did that happen? All the young punks and their wrinkled old faces. Here we go.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1025125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/robert_rauschenberg_can_only_be_associat#c1025125 Visual Art Wed, 14 May 2008 20:13:48 -0800