Robert Rauschenberg and Emptiness | Erased de Kooning Drawing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2020
- Neo-dada artist Robert Rauschenberg combine paintings are anything but empty, but Rauschenberg also made some pretty interesting and controversial artworks in his time. White paintings and an Erased de Kooning Drawing are on the menu in this video as we look at Rauschenberg and Emptiness.
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Wasn’t until the second watch that I realised the low drone humming throughout the video. More empty, possibly, than no soundtrack at all.
This is so magnificent and thought out - even in my classes on Rauschenberg and Johns the professor didn't explain it this well (or, well, at all). I have to ask- are you an art historian? Because these videos are so very well done, they leave me almost stupefied afterwards. Thank you for posting them, truly ♥
Thank you so much Minny! I study art history but, due to Covid, I took a break (online classes didn't really do it for me). I'm so happy my videos have that effect on you!
Thank you for your comment and your amazing support!
seeing this painting in person was incredible. it held such a large place in my mind because it’s one of my favorite art history stories, so the fact it was so small was surprising !
I work at SFMOMA. Whenever people ask me which is my favorite piece in the collection, I say it's a toss up between Alice Neel's "Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian" and this Rauschenberg/de Kooning/Johns collab.
Is it still there ??
I love this story and the idea that de Kooning searched his entire studio for the stickiest, most durable grease pencil just for sheer pettiness. This is a fantastic interpretation of emptiness vs. absence; and, as you've pointed out Cage's importance, Zen Buddhism's import into America.
Great stuff. Art gives us the opportunity to contemplate all of the issues of life. When something is there but gets erased it poses so many interesting questions. Much like a ghost.
I'm really late but thank you for this, I don't like the blank paintings but using erasers as much as you would a paint brush is inspirational to me. I've wanted a sense of ghostliness and I've realised that when you erase, the marks made aren't ever gone but ghostly blending into the white or background
Loved this. One of my favorite works of art.
Thank you! i need this for my assignment 😊
You're welcome!! I hope you do well on your assignment! :)
Thank you!
EXCELLENT !
Thank yooooou so much❤️
Thank YOU for the loving comment!
And so the difference bitween the white painting from Malevich is just the meaning the artist want to make of them or what? Like Malevich proposal was the "no limits" of the art or that the limit of that "painting" without colours was the limit of what the canvas measured.
Emptiness has a function.
Silence has a function.
In music, silence helps to define the structure of the sound.
In visual art, emptiness serves the same function. It helps to define the structure of the visible objects .
But exhibiting silence as music or exhibiting empty space as visual art is specious.
Poetry is more than enough
At first I said "What the heck is so interesting about this empty canvas? Staring at my wall would be better than this", but then came the concept of emptier than empty and tought of The Bronze Age Collapse: the fact that we know something disasterous happened during that time, that there are little clues and subtle hints about it, but that it will probably remain a mistery forever. Therein lies what makes it so interesting.
Also, "Airports for the lights, shadows and particles" is straight up the most pretentious analogy I've ever heard. Lmao.