Word: rauschenberger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prize should have gone to a U.S. painter who is far from pop. He is Kenneth Noland, whose work, along with that of his stylistic comrade, the late Morris Louis, was presented in the official U.S. exhibit as an alternate direction to that taken by Prizewinner Robert Rauschenberg (TIME, Sept. 18) and Jasper Johns (TIME...
Second, among its welter of practitioners, two painters have emerged as the undisputed eye-catchers: Robert Rauschenberg, 38, (TIME, Sept.18), who made off with first honors last summer at the Venice Biennale, and Jasper Johns, 34, pop's most painterly painter (opposite...
...close friends, but miles apart in temperament. Extravert Rauschenberg is now touring Japan with the Merce Cunningham ballet, for which he whips up a spontaneous stage set a night out of the jetsam of commercial products. More reticent, Jasper Johns plays the position of a mandarin: his aim is to make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture...
...works. Three years later, in 1961, he won an award at the Carnegie International, has since shown around the world and now commands prices in five figures. This week 70 works of his will go on view in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, where enthusiastic crowds jammed a Rauschenberg show early this year...
Last week Rauschenberg was with the ballet in Stockholm, halfway through a six-month world tour. He revisited a collage combine door that he gave the Swedish Museum of Art in 1961, and was pleased to find it in good repair-down to the last bottle cap and bread crumb. When the tour is over, he should find a nearly bare studio in Manhattan, since he asked a friend to throw out all the silk screens he made before leaving. "Art shouldn't be a pillow you can fall asleep on," says Rauschenberg, who makes art out of pillows...