Heineman is granted
almost unimaginable access to the violence and backroom dealings of the lawless region, capturing everything from an entire village, housewives and all, turning on police who try to crack down on the Autodefensas to scenes of the
white shirts
slipping into the same, sadistic tactics as their enemy.
The 1951 three - panel
White Painting is believed to have been painted over
almost immediately as Untitled [matte black triptych](ca. 1951, fig. 2).6 In fact, there is no exhibition history or any other evidence to indicate that
White Painting [three panel] was extant between 1951 and 1968; 7 in those years, most of the original
White Paintings had
slipped out of existence, their canvases used as the supports for other pieces.8 Though artists throughout history have created new works on used canvases, Rauschenberg did so with an unusual frequency and ease, particularly in the early 1950s.9 Looking back at that period some ten years later, he commented, «Today I wouldn't do that....