Visual Art Robert Rauschenberg is Dead
posted by on May 13 at 9:20 AM
This one I really feel. (I’m working on writing an appreciation.)
Here’s the New York Times obituary. If you want to pay a visit today to Rauschenberg’s work locally, there’s a combine painting (one mixed with sculpture) called Octave up on the third floor of the Seattle Art Museum, next to a great work incorporating a thermometer by Rauschenberg’s longtime friend and one-time love, Jasper Johns.
Here’s Rauschenberg’s famous 1955 work, Bed.
This is the last Rauschenberg show I wish I’d seen.
And if you’re flying through SeaTac Airport today, visit Rauschenberg’s serigraph on mirror-coated Plexiglas, Star Quarters. It’s on Concourse C.
I went to a Rauschenberg show in Seattle in about 1980. We were punks, and drank up every drop of white wine in the show, and got thrown out. I wish I'd looked at the pictures more.
Rauschenberg is/was one of the superstars of American art. I used to have a Guggenheim Rauschenberg umbrella that was the coolest thing.
So glad I got to see this: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=68
I'll be in SeaTac Sunday night; I'll try to remember to visit Star Quarters.
From the Times obit, a nice detail of how he lived:
"When he wasn’t traveling in later years, he was in Captiva, a slender island off Florida’s Gulf coast, living at first in a modest beach house and working out of a small studio. In time he became Captiva’s biggest residential landowner while also maintaining a town house in Greenwich Village back in New York. He acquired the land in Captiva by buying adjacent properties from elderly neighbors whom he let live rent-free in their houses, which he maintained for them."
There's also the piece in the Seattle Symphony Hall main lobby...
wow....
i don't know what to say.
I always had a crush on Rauschenberg. Too bad he liked men, and was much older than I.
The art world will mourn him intensely.
His work is crap.
No it isn't. RIP
RIP. I love his work.
One of my favorite Rauschenberg stories dates from his days kicking around lower Manhattan with Jasper Johns. The two of them would pick a street corner at random, then challenge themselves to make something using only materials that they found for free within a one block radius. They never failed to latch on to some object around which to create an amazing piece of art.
I believe the "Bed" piece dates from that period. Inspired, brilliant stuff. The man was a giant.
Tottaly awsome work. It turns me on so much. Im hard right now over it. In serriousness, it is trulty ahead of its time and splendid. Anyone who says its "crap", truly dos'nt know th meaning of the word.
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