That Rauschenberg is acutely aware of the ironies of his situation is clear in his duplicated «action paintings» Factum I and
Factum II, in which he proves the lie of abstract expressionist spontaneity by accurately reproducing every drip and splatter.
Historically, it looks back to Rauschenberg's Factum I and
Factum II, and ahead to French painter Bernard Piffaretti's decades - long pursuit of twinned compositions, but it lacks the coherence (visual and conceptual) of the other Brushstroke paintings.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., paid $ 4.5 million in 2001 for Serra's massive steel sculpture Five Plates, Two Poles (1971), according to sources, and New York's Museum of Modern Art spent around $ 12 million in 1999 for Rauschenberg's combine painting
Factum II (1957).
Not exact matches
I was thinking of those two Rauschenherg paintings,
Factum I and
II, because they started out to be two separate paintings and then by the time I finished them they were one painting.
The «Causation in Tort
II» material includes sample
factums for a mock appeal to the British Columbia Court of Appeal that was part of the «Causation in Tort
II» programme.