Robert Rauschenberg --- The rule breaker (1)

     If you are a big fan of pop art, he would definitely be the one that can catch your eye. Pop art is sometimes misunderstood by people. Well, like we can never judge a book by its cover, we should always look beyond the surface. I'm thinking that it can not be called overstate to say that Robert Rauschenberg  is one of the most important pioneer in Pop Art. And the first can always be the hardest.
   At that time, nonobjectivism was something in vogue. Doing exactly on the opposite, Rauschenberg was aware of all kinds of materials such as advertisement, newspapers, logos and other daily stuffs. And that is what truly catches my attention. Just like a magician, he made unrelated things related!
   Here are something interesting things that I would like to share. Rauschenberg was surely a painter ---not an ordinary one however. The following is one of his most controversial work.

                                               Erased de Kooning Drawing

                                                          Three crowns on the Erased de Kooning Drawing

                          Robert Rauschenberg describes the story and process behind “Erased de Kooning”.

  Nothing? Something?There is an interesting talk on this picture by Rauschenberg himself --- http://artforum.com.cn/video/mode=large&id=2858   According to himself, 'I'm just trying to pick out a way to bring drawing to the all whites!'   It is so funny to hear him saying like 'I started to draw it! And....and then just erased it. It became nothing. And then.....you know, it became art. You know how ridiculous it is that you have to think ridiculously and then it became art. ' Art may not be something that have to be very logical. It can be something really simple, and even nothing just like the Erased de Kooning Drawing. We can barely see the drawing clearly but we are given the space to imagine it and feel it.