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Rauschenberg and Johns studied at the

innovative Black mountain College in

North Carolina with the musician John

Cage (4'33").


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John Cage

John Cage's most famous musical compositionis called 4'33".

It consists of the pianist going to the piano, and

not hitting any keys for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. (He uses a stopwatch to timethis.)

The entire piece consists of silences -- silences

of different lengths, they say. What you hearwhen you listen to 4'33" is a

matter of chance.


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Robert Rauschenberg

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Erased de Kooning, 1953


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de Kooning painted a woman

series with large, slashing

brushstrokes which are

deliberately crude, frantic, and

violent.

The emphasis is on the act of

painting/mark making.


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De Kooning

Woman with

Bicycle

1952-53

Abstract

Expressionism


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Combine Painting/ Assemblage

A technique in which art works are made byfastening objects from the real world to abstract

painted canvases.


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Found object -

Throw away goods of

consumer society

which artists

incorporate directlyinto their work.


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Bed, 1955Painting relates to both

art and life I try to actin the gap between the

two. A pair of socks is

no less suitable tomake a painting with

than wood, nails,

turpentine, oil, andfabric.

R. Rauschenberg


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Bed, 1955

Combine painting /

assemblage

Technique in which art

works are made by fasteningobjects from the real world to

abstract painted canvases.


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R. Rauschenberg, Coca Cola Plan,1958


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Junk is art waiting to be discovered. "sport of making something I haven't

seen before. If I know what I'm going todo, I don't do it."

bottles are discards , part of the debrisof the urban landscape

suggests the abundance andwastefulness of runawayconsumerism

art reflects society bottles are made Godlike on an alter

like niche, with angelic wings, above aglobe

not far from the brand name soft drinkscurrent status in the world market


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Pollock in his

studio floorpainting.

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Expressionism Abstract Expressionism A movement whichis abstract (emphasizing shape, colour, and line,with little recognizable subject matter) and

expressive (stressing emotion and individualfeeling).

Action Painting The painting is a record of the

process of the pictures creation, reflecting the whole of

the artists physical and mental being. The viewer is meant to be aware of the process; it is

important to imagine the artist in the act of creation.


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Lavender Mist

Pollock,

Lavender Mist

(detail)

Pollock

1950


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A painting is more like the real world when it ismade out of the real world.

R. Rauschenberg


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Title - to react, be retrospective, oroperate in a backward direction.

JFK already dead - Rauschenbergwrote him just before, sendingartwork as gift.

Captures Kennedy's charisma -TV's first political superstar -

reflects the mass media's abilityto make icons.

Uses found images from the TV.and elsewhere.

Montage, or quilt of imagescombined with expressive brushwork.

(Oil and silk-screen on canvas)


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The subject involves a glut ofmessages and images

" I was bombarded with TV sets

and magazines, by the refuse, bythe excesses of the world... Ithought that if I could paint ormake an honest work , it shouldincorporate all of these elements,which were and are a reality."

Relates to the way images areseen, channel changing,translated into a still image

placed side by side, and still , therelationships seem more chaotic &

surreal. Red patch - stroboscopic photo of

Duchamp's Nude DescendingStaircase from Life Magazine.


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Jasper Johns


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Encaustic

A method of painting with pigment (colour)

dissolved in hot wax.


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Detail ofFlag(1954-55). This imageillustrates Johns' early technique of

painting with thick, dripping encaustic

over a collage made from found

materials such as newspaper.


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Something so well known it is not well seen

Design already there, allowing him to work on other

levels ( the painted surface)

Develop a new surface, like a skin, with encaustic

Symbol made abstract through act of painting.


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Begs questions: Is it a flag? Is it a painting of a flag? Both? Is it art?

Provocative - gives viewer cause to reflect - tests imaginative capacity ofthe viewer

Flag traditionally shown in action, symbol of nationalism, identity, and power

here its flat Transforms an object highly resistant to aesthetic consideration.


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White Flag, 1955

There are things that are seen andnot looked at. I want the viewer to

examine the all too familiar image.

J. Johns


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Target with 4 Faces

1955


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Familiar symbol used asdesign within which theartist can use paint freely

Target? Art?

Painted target

automatically negates useof real one (but couldserve the purpose)

Function displaced - Dada


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Marksmen focus on bullseye; here the rings aretreated with equalimportance as part of anoverall composition.

Paradox Target is a sign/ symbol

transformed through paintinto art

Faces are sculpturetransformed throughrepetition into a symbol"face or person"


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Numbers in

Colors1958-59


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Familiar symbols are

used as grid/matrix to

improvise within

The effect is of texture

& pattern

The quantitative

becomes qualitative


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0 through 9,

1961


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Painting With Two Balls

1960


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Direct attack on Abstractexpressionism.

Abs. Exp. artists were

aggressively asserting in

spontaneous brushwork

expressions of inner states omind etc.


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Abstract Expressionistpainting from the hip"asserted a macho image

John's painting is a literalsatire of this activity.

He splits the surface,revealing empty space heldapart with two wooden balls .


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Driver,1963


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Field Painting,

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