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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)”
– Robert Rauschenberg, 1959

Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.

Curated by Paul Schimmel, Robert Rauchenberg: Combines was shown in early 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On seeing it there, and upon learning that there were no plans to film it, I asked Bob for permission to do so at the next venue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines.

Susan Sollins-Brown
Executive Director
Art21

Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964). The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, & Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999).

VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Special thanks to Robert Rauschenberg’s Studio and David White; Paul Schimmel and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Earle Brown Music Foundation and Thomas Fichter.

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Live art action expressive motions paintings with body found by artist Barbara Streiff`CH. Sound by DJ Jackomo.
Barbara Streiff was study Art & History on University and Highschool of Art in Zuerich, Florence and Paris. Learning from the old master and later modern art techniques in communicative art exchange on the road all over the World.- Europe – Asia – China – Arab Staates – Brasil. The motions paintings overpainted in expressive abstraction is her passion. The artist did found a new combination in art styles to express herself. Inspiration was the expressive abstraction in action paintings like Mathieux in Paris 1940. later in the USA 1960 Jackson Pollok and Sam Francis This modern art in a new combination like Yves Kleins action paintings with body of womens but to be the acteur byself in performance of art & philosophie. By this performance she express her self with oiled body on paper overpaintings with mixed spay colors.
Digital Art Movie by Barbara Streiff from Switzerland of the Artaction with expressive Bodypaintings for the Installation to the Elements in NY Arts Beijing China Gallery Space China Art Garden 318. – Sound DJ Jackomo.

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Damien Hirst discusses “A Thousand Years”, a response to the Francis Bacon triptych with The Times art critic, Rachel Campbell-Johnston.

Damien Hirst
A Thousand Years
1990
Steel, glass, flies, maggots, MDF, insect-o-cutor, cow’s head, sugar, water
213 x 427 x 213 cm
contemporary art
Hirst’s work is an examination of the processes of life and death: the ironies, falsehoods and desires that we mobilise to negotiate our own alienation and mortality.

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MINUS SPACE exhibition curated by Phong Bui, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, Long Island City, New York, October 19, 2008 – January 19, 2009

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Oil Painter Doug Purdon clearly teaches the proper techniques for Varnishing Oil Paintings. For more information, please visit www.winsornewton.com

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CONTEMPORARY FANTASY, LANDSCAPE, FLOWERS, TREES, SEASCAPE, MUSIC,RELIGIOUS COMPOSITIONS, ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS, DECORATIVE, PRIMITIVE PAINTINGS- ARTWORK FOR SALE FROM ARTIST’S STUDIO- LOW PRICES!!!MODERN METALLIC JEWEL TEXTURED PAINTINGS.

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