Robert Rauschenberg is dead

[JackFTwist]

Robert Rauschenberg, a giant in American art, died Monday night. This won't anything to most of the posters here, but I love his work, just love it, and he was one of the seminal artists of the 20th century. I even had a Robert Raushenberg ABC book for the boys to learn their letters so they would also become familiar with his art.

The New York Times has a slide show here: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/04/14/arts/20080414_RAUS_SLIDESHOW_index.html


Rest eternal grant him O God
and let light perpetual shine upon him.

 

[JackFTwist]

http://images.google.com/images?q=rauschenberg&gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&safe=off&start=0&sa=N

page after page of a fraction of his work

 

[star-warrior]

This looks fun

 

[josher]

He was a great artist and a very nice person.

I actually met him on a few occasions.

He had none of the off-putting "artistic temperment" that many artists show.

 

[Pathicus]

Just heard that he had passed away... He produced some amazing work. One of the greatest and influential American artists of the post-war era.

Sad news indeed.

 

[iman]

He was the great genius of late 20th century art, so much better than many of his contemporaries.

Monogram:

 

[JackFTwist]

Thanks iman and everyone, it touches my heart to read your posts. I know people who knew Raushenberg and they speak highly of him as a man as josher knew him and says good things.

Iman's and rew and Parthicus all witness to the truth that he has a seminal artist oft he 20th century whose work will have profound influence and be remembered -

thanks again everyone for joining me on my day of grief for Bib Rauschenberg.

I like everyone showing a favorite piece

 

[JackFTwist]

found a great study of Rauschenberg on a site devoted to artists who are GLBT

I know that Rauschenberg was reputed to be gay although he was briefly married - he tended to be not personal in his art unlike Picasso whose art reads like a diary of his private life -

I found these words (on a site for glbt artists) of interest of Rauschenberg in the 1950s: http://www.glbtq.com/arts/rauschenberg_r.html

Rauschenberg moved to New York City in 1949 and was briefly married to painter Susan Weil. In 1953 he met Jasper Johns, and they formed an intense personal and creative relationship that lasted until 1961. The painters critiqued one another's work, exchanged ideas, and together established a mode of making art that challenged Abstract Expressionism's emphasis on self-revelation.


Rauschenberg questioned the connection between feelings and paint both verbally and visually. For example, in Factum I (1957) he apes the spontaneously "unique" drips and splatters of Action Painting and then cleverly reproduces them in Factum II (1957).


Rauschenberg's de-emphasis of the self in his work is particularly meaningful when analyzed in the context of McCarthy-era homophobia. How could a gay man explore his inner feelings if revealing his true self meant having to face ostracism and even persecution?

In response, Rauschenberg's strategies ranged from campy coding as he included such telling tidbits as photos of Judy Garland in Bantam (1954) to witty all-out assault as he un-drew the work of an older artist in Erased de Kooning (1953).

 

[JackFTwist]

someone in another thread was saying those who are gay who have made great accomplishment are often overlooked - here we have a premier artist of our time not being celebrated at JUB - what do we do, PM each JUBer and tell them to read a thread that doesn't sound juvenile in the title?

 

[jhmphx]

He was amazing...he also had a huge impact on a lot of artists, writers, etc.

 

[Telstra]

i don't understand art.

 

[JackFTwist]

a fair statement

I do not understand auto mechanics

we have our things - no judgment on us for what they are

if you have a chance to take a good art appreciation course, or go to an art museum and get a tour or a tape to follow from gallery to gallery and find something that hits you - that might be fun

I appreciate your honesty on your knowledge of art and respect for it

Understand it or not, and you don't, you yet have come to pay homage to a great artist, a great gay artist, who used the repression of gays as a theme in his art, in the 50s, a bold move in that McCarthy era -

for that he is a hero, in art he is a genius that marked an new epoch

and if you find pictures of the young Rauschenberg and the young Jasper Johns working together your gay pointer thing will erect itself and point - they were hot hot hot..

It is class that you came to pay homage even when you don't grasp what he did, and for that class, I bow to you in gratitude

 

[Telstra]

^ some arts are eye candy and some art not so ......

 

[Telstra]

have another bump for the artist.

to be honest,
i haven't got a clue who Robert Rauschenberg was.

 

[cocktales]

Oh my!

I had no idea he had passed away...

I enjoy(ed) his works so very much and in fact we "discovered" a framed print of his in a flea market in Florida and bought it for $20!!!!!

I KNOW the seller had NO idea who he was/is and what some of his prints "can" sell for.

In fact, many of his prints are VERRRRY affordable; but the one we have is pretty pricey!! In fact, the last time I saw ours for sale, it was listed for around $2,800.00!!!

The St. Louis Symphony:

As with ALL great artists who pass away, I am sure his works will sky-rocket in price now!

May he rest in peace!

 

[AngelFromAbove]

Ironically, I am not someone who follows art at all. However, I recently had to study about artists because my job has artwork around the building and customers often ask about the pieces. I believe the work by Robert R. that we have is Quatro Mani I.

 

[cocktales]

Crap!

I noticed when I signed onto this thread, I noted that my St. Louis Symphony art from RAuschenberg had a red X, so I am re-postin it through my own media so that you all can appreciate it too...

Enjoy!

 

[teadrinker]

What I particularly liked about Rauschenberg was the humour and humanity of much of his work. Truly a great artist, and a great man.

-T.