Rauschenberg's
brashness seems both shocking and refreshing.
Not exact matches
His almost - forty - year - old self
seems a bit ashamed of the
brashness of his younger days.
It is also a concept that
seems somewhat nostalgic and countercultural, in a world that is often both too harsh and too coarse, a world where
brashness and bravado
seem far more common and rewarded than the gentler and subtler acts — and art — of grace.
The show, held in a drafty garage annexed by the Paul Kasmin Gallery, brought together a group of hulking constructions that were so laden with expressionist gesture, so plainly over-the-top, they
seemed as extreme in their
brashness as the «Black Paintings» had been in their restraint.
So it would
seem that no body of work could epitomize the
brashness of the 1980s better, or be better suited to the speed of the digital present, than the work of Barbara Kruger.