[New-Poetry] Robert Rauschenberg

[Anny Ballardini]

"Robert Rauschenberg was born on Oct. 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Tex., a small refinery town where 'it was very easy to grow up without ever seeing a painting,' he said. His grandfather, a doctor, had settled in Texas and married a full-blooded Cherokee. His father worked for a local utility company. The family lived so modestly that his mother used to make him shirts out of scraps of fabric. "

"For his high school graduation present, Mr. Rauschenberg wanted a ready-made shirt, his first. A decade or so later he made history with his own assemblages of scraps and ready-mades: sculptures and music boxes made of packing crates, rocks and rope; and paintings like 'Yoicks' sewn from fabric strips."

'I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop,' he said in an interview on Captiva in 2000. 'At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.'

He added, "Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it, and I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1210709260-XyUdQMiow2ZD8/E9wCYolw


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