The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 172 - 173 Flashcards
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Rauschenberg: Forms Equals Fact
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- Rauschenberg
- b. 1925
- postwar artist most responsible for liberating the artists from a compulsion to record his own emotions
- created combines: half-paint/half-sculpture
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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- in the ’80s, Raushcenberg launched a self-funded crusade called ROCI, to promote peace through art
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Johns: Zen Master of American Art
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- Jasper Johns
- b. 1930
- returned recognizable imagery to art
- art was an intellectual exercise
- art is a study of ambiguity and metamorphosis
- art is intentionally oblique, cool, and detached yet open to multiple interpretation
