[✌➬]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/ar...hp&oref=slogin

[atari 2600]

I really, really like a lot of his work.

R.I.P. R.R.

He's already been gettin' dead artist's prices for many years. They are going to go through the roof now.

I suppose he'll finally fetch numbers that routinely exceed those of his still-living ex-roommate, Jasper Johns.

[Rob Instigator]

FUCK.

Terrible news for me.

Rauschenberg was a great artist. I got to meet him at the Menil museum once, when he did a special show there. He was gracious and very nice. cool fucking art too. GODDAMN IT THIS SUCKS.

 

 

[demonrail666]

One of my favourite artists, full stop. Awful news.

[!@#$%!]

oh fuckit. sucks.

i used to go to the national gallery & check out his stuff.

thanks.

[atari 2600]

 

Rebus, 1955

 

Bed, 1955

 

Canyon, 1959

 

Monogram, 1959

[screamingskull]

Bummer

 

[Rob Instigator]

I also got to see MONOGRAM at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston when the collection from MOMA came to Houston (while they repaired MOMA)
it was great seeing people's reactions.

[demonrail666]

It's only left to Gerhard Richter now. And in my opinion, when he dies, truly great post-War art will be officially resigned to history. A controversial, and certainly debatable, point. But I really do believe it.

[Rob Instigator]

Jasper Johns is still kicking, Rauschenberg's old skid row roommate.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Jasper Johns is still kicking, Rauschenberg's old skid row roommate.

Yeah, and so are a number of artists from the era, but I've never considered Johns to be Great in the same way that I think of Rauschenberg, Warhol, Francis Bacon and Barnett Newman, all of whom are now dead, and Richter who is still alive. These for me are the five major painters of the post-war era. Just an opinion of course. Certainly not something I could possibly prove.

EDIT: I might add Rothko to that list, but he's dead too, so the point still stands.

[Rob Instigator]

honest opinion.

while I love Johns' work, and his imagery and iconography, I too would not put him in the same groundbreaking class as Rauschenberg.

[racehorse]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

It's only left to Gerhard Richter now. And in my opinion, when he dies, truly great post-War art will be officially resigned to history. A controversial, and certainly debatable, point. But I really do believe it.

the landscape's been changing for years and always has been - it's continuous.
i have never seen anything by rauschenberg which i wasn't in love with. his death is unfortunate - a friend of mine met him only a couple of months ago at an exhibition of his in Portugal. too late to ever hope to buy anything i suppose.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by racehorse

too late to ever hope to buy anything i suppose.

I don't think it took his death for his work to be out of most people's budget.

Rebus sold for 7 million dollars in the early '90s. The same price paid for Richter's Kerze (used for the Daydream Nation cover) this year. Not packet money, by anyone's standards.

[Rob Instigator]

rauschenberg prints should remain fairly affordable for at least a little bit.

[racehorse]

it's interesting when artists die - they become legends and mythical creatures. i suppose rauschenberg was already in this category whilst living (looking at the costs of his work) though now rauschenberg will become a blank canvas for projection, he's become his own work

 

[racehorse]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

rauschenberg prints should remain fairly affordable for at least a little bit.

yeah, yuou can get prints for about $1500 but i'm sure it will sky rocket in the next few weeks/months.

[demonrail666]

I have a small original Gilbert and George that's staying with my mum until one of them dies, and then I'm gonna be well sorted.

[atari 2600]

Someone I used to know who died years ago had a Rauschenberg original from an artist's workshop he attended at a university.

Rauschenberg demonstrated some of his techniques during the talk and afterwards my friend asked him for the one he made. He gave it to him and signed it. It wasn't all that great of a piece.

The friend ended up getting killed by a drunk driver. He and his father were in an old pick-up truck transporting his artwork from Georgia Southern University (Ga Southern College at the time) where he had just had his senior exhibition, when, in truly cliche fashion, a young driver who had just gotten his license gunned his car up a neighborhood street and crashed right into the passenger side doorway killing him instantly. It all hearkens, in a sense, to the Cracker song "Truckload of Art."

I had been living at his house up until only a few days previous to this incident. He had talked about possibly giving me the painting or allowing me to buy it. He had kicked me out after it became known that he had designs on my girlfriend at the time. He was a squirrely guy anyway and I suspect being around two people happy like we were grated on his nerves. At any rate, in the impetuousness of my youth I had wished him dead. I've always felt horrible about it. I did consider going to his place and just taking it or trying to talk to his father or one of his family members about acquiring it, and probably would have, had it not been for the sincere misgivings. I never even went by his place to see what was going on with his possessions. Oh well...Statesboro Blues.

[demonrail666]

A tragic story despite your mixed memories of the guy involved. It probably says more about me but, because you didn't exactly part on good terms and he did offer it to you before he was killed i'd have taken the painting.

You're probably a better man for not having taken it though. ... SUCKER!