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no
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nothing started in art schools
the streets were better places
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when we think of rauschenberg we often
think of the combines which he made in
the mid-1960s and these works tend to be
actually quite nostalgic works the real
surprise of this exhibition is to see
rauschenberg making work that is just so
colorful and vibrant and bright and
spacious
i couldn't understand the instructions
that i was getting
and
so i just went out on the streets it got
too embarrassing after a point
because all the other people in the
class how they weren't doing very
interesting work
they were doing uh picassos and leisures
and pieces but in different colors
and that didn't interest me
before turning to the spreads
rauschenberg was making rather more
minimal abstract sparse kind of work
cardboards the frosts and the
jammers and i think when you look at the
spreads you can send some kind of
creative exuberance
in rauschenberg as he's returning to
images and objects
the fact that rauschenberg made the
series that spreads in florida is
incredibly important to our
understanding of them so he was having a
completely different experience of
landscape as he was moving from new york
city to florida
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rauschenberg really dismantled the
tradition of painting and introduced
so many new ways of making work that
would then become relevant to subsequent
generations of artists
for example his work with
available everyday objects
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collaborations
there's his use of performance all of
these are strategies that other artists
would be picking up
in the spreads many of our favorite
rauschenberg objects reappear
among these is the famous parachutes
that are familiar to us from his 1963
pelican performance piece
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and i knew that that that that i was
that this was some kind of obsession
larsenberg changed the whole map of art
history from 1950s onwards
what i like about rajsenberg is it
always seems to be moving against the
tide when art gets minimal he gets
maximal when art gets purer he allows
color shapes forms and ideas to run riot
and rashenberg's key characteristic is
his desire almost to stay forever young
through the medium of his art
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no
nothing started in art schools
the streets were better places