A young Rauschenberg with his White Canvases.  I bet we would have been BFFs. Today was the last lecture day of my Iconoclasm course.  We discussed Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (Read more here).  He asked de Kooning if he could erase one of his works as an act of art, and de Kooning replied, “Okay, I want it to be something I’ll miss, and I want to give you something really difficult to erase.”  Rauschenberg spent a month erasing a drawing done in charcoal, oil paint, pencil and crayon.  By erasing the piece, he took away its power and gave it a new life.  That’s some heavy stuff right there.

A young Rauschenberg with his White Canvases.  I bet we would have been BFFs.

Today was the last lecture day of my Iconoclasm course.  We discussed Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (Read more here).  He asked de Kooning if he could erase one of his works as an act of art, and de Kooning replied, “Okay, I want it to be something I’ll miss, and I want to give you something really difficult to erase.”  Rauschenberg spent a month erasing a drawing done in charcoal, oil paint, pencil and crayon.  By erasing the piece, he took away its power and gave it a new life.  That’s some heavy stuff right there.

A young Rauschenberg with his White Canvases.  I bet we would have been BFFs. Today was the last lecture day of my Iconoclasm course.  We discussed Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (Read more here).  He asked de Kooning if he could erase one of his works as an act of art, and de Kooning replied, “Okay, I want it to be something I’ll miss, and I want to give you something really difficult to erase.”  Rauschenberg spent a month erasing a drawing done in charcoal, oil paint, pencil and crayon.  By erasing the piece, he took away its power and gave it a new life.  That’s some heavy stuff right there.

A young Rauschenberg with his White Canvases.  I bet we would have been BFFs.

Today was the last lecture day of my Iconoclasm course.  We discussed Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (Read more here).  He asked de Kooning if he could erase one of his works as an act of art, and de Kooning replied, “Okay, I want it to be something I’ll miss, and I want to give you something really difficult to erase.”  Rauschenberg spent a month erasing a drawing done in charcoal, oil paint, pencil and crayon.  By erasing the piece, he took away its power and gave it a new life.  That’s some heavy stuff right there.

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