Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Rauschenberg by Hughes

This is the part 3 of The Mona Lisa Curse, a critical film about the contemporary art market by Robert Hughes. The 12 parts of the movie are available on youtube.
Rauschenberg, with it's collages, builds open-ended narratives, he throws the elements of the mass media society at us, every element has it's own meaning, and a new narrative is created by every beholder as it connects the individual meanings of the elements in it's mind.
Furthermore, Rauschenberg pushed the concept to a new level as he pioneered a new form of art, the "assemblage", combining objects, and readymades (like duchamp), in a new way. About the assemblages, there is this interesting quote:

“There are two key ideas attached to the word "assemblage". The first, is that however the union of certain images and objects can result in art, those images and objects will never completely lose their identification with the ordinary world, the every day world from where they were taken. The second idea is that this connection with every day life, as long as we are not embarrassed by it, opens the way to the use of a vast range of materials and techniques that were, so far, not associated with the artistic production"

Archer, Michael. Contemporary Art. (Translated from portuguese)



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