Next week let's get personal...
Robert Rauschenberg got very personal with Amerikan Kulture in the 1960's.
His "Combine" paintings took our national obsessions, loves, hates, fears, desires and prejudices from the media and transferred them onto canvas, he then painted around and into them with a pastiche of Abstract Expressionist gestural punctuation and irony.
For you the assignment (if you choose to accept it) is to bring to class images (preferably photo copies) of what you love, hate, fear, despise, admire and find weird.
I will show you how to transfer these images to canvas and then counterpoint them with paint and ironic plasticity.
The top painting is mine and includes such personal icons as my much admired and loved Yamaha Z1 liter class motorcycle, a Picasso woodcut and a "t" square...Rauschenberg's is self explainatory.
Rauschenberg used Xylene, a very toxic industrial cleaning fluid, to transfer his images,,,I will show you how to transfer safely with acrylic medium.
See you next week, john
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