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Exhibition: 14 American Painters (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A special showing American painters at work in their studios, including Robert Motherwell, James Brooks, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Stuart Davis, Larry Rivers, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg...
...Robert Rauschenberg...
...neither of whom likes to be shown with other artists. Otherwise, the collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully...
...moons and seas by Max Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
...entrance stands a creation by Robert Rauschen-berg-an old crate that rests on a post embedded in a sofa pillow and covered with bits of photographs and newspapers, crowned with a stuffed rooster and wired to light up like a juke box every few seconds. But at 34, Rauschenberg already finds that "I now run the risk of being an extremely traditional painter compared to the young people." Just as Rauschenberg lets his "paintings" grow into environment, the newcomers seem to be trying to suck the environment...