August 5th, 2010
Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterA nameless afternoon in a small San Francisco apartmentcontinue reading this poem
Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, 1955 In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg, a young, little known artist, took a box of erasers and set to rubbing out a densely layered drawing by Willem de Kooning, the king of Abstract Expressionism, and he did it with the Master’s permission. Rauschenberg has said that he was “trying to find a way [...]
