Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really, you ask, how bad is the ice surface? Why it's so bad that despite the gallant efforts of the zamboni man, who circled the arena enough times prior to the opening face-off to make a grown man nauseous, the ice still remained the color of clothes that aren't washed with Borax--in front of one net, there was a shotput circle, to the right of the other, the landing area for a long jump...
...surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively flat. Collection was almost an orthodox collage: layers of souvenir-like junk half-effaced by swaths and spatters of bright red paint. (Rauschenberg liked color to have the same "given" quality as a found object; discovering some unlabeled cans of house paint on sale for 50 each, he opened them and painted with whatever color he found inside...
...Bauhaus-type exercises Albers assigned to his students was the root of Rauschenberg's later practice: they had to find "interesting" discarded objects?anything from old tin cans to bicycle wheels to stones?and bring them into class as examples of accidental aesthetic form. Moreover, the stringent color exercises that Albers set would ultimately have a lot to do with the severe paintings Rauschenberg made between 1951 and '53: all-white and then all-black panels, the latter painted over a wrinkled mulch of newspaper, with no relationships of color. Twenty-five years ago, these pictures looked absurd; today they...
...flicker of a TV set as the dial is clicked: rocket, eagle, Kennedy, dancer, oranges, box, all registered with the peacock-hued, aniline-sharp intensity of electronic color. The subject was glut...
...best of the color silk-screen paintings, like Retroactive I, 1964, are such soaring bel canto that one is apt to skip over the odd resonance of their images. Consider the red patch in the lower right corner: a silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden...