Awkward art

Robert Rauschenburg

1925-2008

 

Pantomime

1961

oil,enamel,paper,fabric,wood,metal, rubber wheel,and electric fans on canvas

Movement-Pop art

 

By including two fans-which were originally functional-in this work, Rauschenburg's was exporting the way a painting can effect the space it occupies.He would later describe the fans as a way of "keeping the (painting) fresh and in constant relation to the atmosphere of the room"Rauschenburg incorporated increasingly unwieldy everyday objects into his paintings,and as a result they became,in his words,"awkward physically" reaching into the space of the room.

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