Philosophy
The artist Robert Rauschenberg died yesterday of a heart attack. After the abstract expressionism of Pollack and Motherwell, the question was legitimately asked, "Where can art possibly go?" Robert Rauschenberg was one of the people who took it there.
One of my favorite works ever is one of his early works called "Erased de Kooning Drawing." He got Willem de Kooning, an artist of significance, to give him a drawing that de Kooning himself considered to be of some importance in his overall catalogue. Rauschenberg then proceeded to erase it, placing the blank sheet in a frame and displaying it as his own work of art.
Is it art? Is it Rauschenberg's piece if he ended up with nothing that de Kooning didn't already have before?
- Peroxide Makes The Art Grow Blonder
As usual, amazing questions again this time. There were a couple of questions about aesthetics, the philosophy of art. BKriplur asks, Has anyone applied analytic philosophy to art criticism? Yes. The most famous analytic figures in aesthetics are probably...
- Deceased--helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler December 12th, 1928 to December 27th, 2011 "Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter" Helen Frankenthaler's work, which featured bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans, took art...
- Deceased--pat Passlof
Milton Resnick with Pat Passlof Pat Passlof August 5th, 1928 to November 13th, 2011 "Pat Passlof, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 83" by Margalit Fox November 15th, 2011 The New York Times Pat Passlof, an Abstract Expressionist painter whose...
- Deceased--cy Twombly
Cy Twombly April 25th, 1928 to July 5th, 2011 "American painter Cy Twombly, celebrated for large-scale scribble paintings, dies in Rome at 83" July 5th, 2011 Associated Press Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring...
- Deceased--robert T. Mccall
Robert T. McCall December 23rd, 1919 to February 26th, 2010 JSC Director Christopher C. Kraft Jr., right, poses in front of the 72-foot by 16-foot mural in the visitor center which was accomplished by Robert T. McCall. "Robert T. McCall, Space Artist,...
Philosophy
RIP Robert Rauschenberg
The artist Robert Rauschenberg died yesterday of a heart attack. After the abstract expressionism of Pollack and Motherwell, the question was legitimately asked, "Where can art possibly go?" Robert Rauschenberg was one of the people who took it there.
One of my favorite works ever is one of his early works called "Erased de Kooning Drawing." He got Willem de Kooning, an artist of significance, to give him a drawing that de Kooning himself considered to be of some importance in his overall catalogue. Rauschenberg then proceeded to erase it, placing the blank sheet in a frame and displaying it as his own work of art.
Is it art? Is it Rauschenberg's piece if he ended up with nothing that de Kooning didn't already have before?
- Peroxide Makes The Art Grow Blonder
As usual, amazing questions again this time. There were a couple of questions about aesthetics, the philosophy of art. BKriplur asks, Has anyone applied analytic philosophy to art criticism? Yes. The most famous analytic figures in aesthetics are probably...
- Deceased--helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler December 12th, 1928 to December 27th, 2011 "Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter" Helen Frankenthaler's work, which featured bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans, took art...
- Deceased--pat Passlof
Milton Resnick with Pat Passlof Pat Passlof August 5th, 1928 to November 13th, 2011 "Pat Passlof, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 83" by Margalit Fox November 15th, 2011 The New York Times Pat Passlof, an Abstract Expressionist painter whose...
- Deceased--cy Twombly
Cy Twombly April 25th, 1928 to July 5th, 2011 "American painter Cy Twombly, celebrated for large-scale scribble paintings, dies in Rome at 83" July 5th, 2011 Associated Press Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring...
- Deceased--robert T. Mccall
Robert T. McCall December 23rd, 1919 to February 26th, 2010 JSC Director Christopher C. Kraft Jr., right, poses in front of the 72-foot by 16-foot mural in the visitor center which was accomplished by Robert T. McCall. "Robert T. McCall, Space Artist,...