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...abstract painter alive. Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, Twombly belongs to the generation of American artists that followed Abstract Expressionism and had to contend, Oedipus-like, with its influence; he is the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. But unlike them, he made his life in Europe. After some gestation in one of the wombs of the postwar American avant-garde, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he went to Italy in 1957 and has lived there ever since...
...Kooning was surrounded by imitators; there was a "look," a gestural rhetoric fatally easy to mimic, that they got from him and reduced to parody. (The artists who would really make something of his legacy were not in New York but in California: Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud.) Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns reacted against him, sons against the parent; but Rauschenberg's now classic Oedipal gesture of rubbing out a De Kooning drawing could not erase the obvious fact that the paint in his combine-pictures came straight out of the older Dutch master, drips, clots...
Just imagine the conversation among the residents of Cabot E-21: Roommate 1: Dahling, just look at this superb Rauschenberg. Won't it look marvelous next to the new futon, over by the halogen lamp. Roommate 2: No, no, dear. You simply have no taste. It must have natural light. Roommate 3: That Rauschenberg is obviously from his late period, and isn't worth hanging. Now the contours in this Miro.... Nct only do you have the perfect excuse for such parlance, you impress friends and neighbors...
...when it obtained a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a private donor began a purchase fund. Today, the program supports itself by reinvesting profits earned from rental in insurance and new purchases. The works, which include pieces by many big-name artists, such as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Miro, as well as newer, more up-and-coming artists, are purchased by the Museum from the artists themselves, or from galleries or publishers...
...fact the first paintings by a black artist to enter MOMA's collection. It seemed to both Alfred Barr of MOMA and Duncan Phillips that Lawrence's series represented a unique conjunction of black experience, history painting and a modernist idiom. They were right. From Benjamin West to Robert Rauschenberg, American art is sown with attempts, varying between utter bathos and success, to image forth the American story. And for reasons that are lamentably obvious, practically none of these were created by blacks, until Lawrence appeared...