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...ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG-Castelli, 4 East 77th St. Newest turn in the Pop cycle is the technique of enlarging colored photographs and transferring them to canvas by a silk-screen color separation process. Rauschenberg laces it all together with splotches of paint; the result is something like a battered billboard. Through...
...have recoiled from most of the choices. Although such top representational painters as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth sent comfortably realistic scenes to settle the eye, there was plenty else to make it boggle, from Barnett Newman's eccentric, hard-edge stripes in his Black Fire to Robert Rauschenberg's Trophy II, a pop art combine in four pieces equipped with a real glass of water on a shelf with a spoon kerplunk in it. The only true portraits, surprisingly, are Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Marilyn Monroe and Pop Artist James Rosenquist's Portrait...
...Robert Rauschenberg, 37, remembers an art teacher who "taught me to think 'Why not?' " Since Rauschenberg is considered to be a pioneer in pop art, this is probably where the movement went off on its particular tangent. Why not make art out of old newspapers, bits of clothing, Coke bottles, books, skates, clocks? "A painting is not art simply because it is made of oil and paint or because it is on canvas," Rauschenberg argues. He also uses waste materials because, with Manhattan being torn down and built up, "this is our landscape, and I love...
...making his "combines"-works that involve combinations of painting, college and construction-Rauschenberg shows himself to be a man of ingenuity and imagination. "Every minute," he says, "is an assemblage of materials and conflicting ideas and desires." It is this feeling that Rauschenberg tries to catch in his art: all the crossfires of a split second bashed together into a single, isolated work. The fact that many viewers find Rauschenberg's materials ugly baffles him. "When they find so much ugliness and lack of interest in the things around them, I wonder how they get through their miserable days...
Which Is the Flag? Jasper Johns, 32, is, along with Rauschenberg, a dean of the movement. His paintings have a beauty that is rare in pop art. In his early flag paintings, he was concerned with the elusive borderline between reality and art, that moment of ambiguity when an object could be either or both. The flag posed a problem: "You don't see it because you are busy knowing it is a flag." The problem was to turn it into "a visual situation only. How could it be altered so that it could become a painting?" Sometimes, Johns...