Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959   Combines two dimensional collage and paintings and three dimensional objects; calls them ‘combines’  Paints over the collage work in a pseudo expressionist marks  Three dimensional objects are a piece of board, a stuffed vulture, and a pillow on a rope; three objects from everyday life.

Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959  

  • Combines two dimensional collage and paintings and three dimensional objects; calls them ‘combines’ 
  • Paints over the collage work in a pseudo expressionist marks 
  • Three dimensional objects are a piece of board, a stuffed vulture, and a pillow on a rope; three objects from everyday life.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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