Saturday, May 17, 2008

Good night Mr. Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.

He claimed he "wanted something other than what I could make myself and I wanted to use the surprise and the collectiveness and the generosity of finding surprises. And if it wasn't a surprise at first, by the time I got through with it, it was. So the object itself was changed by its context and therefore it became a new thing."

Good night Mr. Rauschenberg, and thank you.

1 comment:

AnnaMarie said...

Irrepressibly prolific is also an impressive adjective.