Sentences with phrase «combine taxidermied»
His sculptural composites combine taxidermy, domestic objects, neon tubing and made elements whilst his film work draws on popular references and found scenarios such as adverts or Universal Pictures title series.
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In Emery's artworks, the aesthetics of taxidermy combine with lurid colours and synthetic textures: the effect is of a newly evolved, bedazzled, perhaps tech - infected creature for whom something has gone very wrong.
The almost manic sense of exhilaration expressed in the mash - up — fans used to blow air currents across a work's surface, tires, coke bottles, taxidermy, a bed, or any of the innumerable curiosities Rauschenberg absorbed into the Combines — amazingly retains much of its punch, even after so many years and so much reproduction in art history texts.
Specifically, Rauschenberg's famous combine Monogram (1955 - 59, Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden), which featured a taxidermied goat adorned with an automobile tire and mounted on a wooden platform, had a profound effect and signaled to Bauermeister the artistic freedom the United States, and New York especially, could offer her that Germany at the time could not.
His early sculptural assemblages or «combines» from the 1960s included every type of material possible, including pillows, clippings, and parts from taxidermy animals in stream - of - consciousness - like tableaus.
Yet no one can look carefully at «Robert Rauschenberg: Combines» and fail to notice recurrent images and objects, from taxidermy to road signs, pockets, ties, shirt sleeves and even parachutes.
Two rarely lent works are included: «Charlene» (1954), the last and largest from the artist's series of «Red Paintings», and «Monogram» (1955 — 59), Rauschenberg's famous «Combine» assembled from a taxidermied angora goat and a tire, positioned on a painted and collaged wooden platform.
Rauschenberg made large painted assemblages he called combines, using discarded furniture, textiles, and even taxidermied animals as elements in the works.
When he flooded his silkscreens with images of JFK and rocket launches snatched from newspapers, magazines or TV; when he affixed a taxidermied bald eagle to a painting («Canyon») or made an Angora goat encircled by a rubber tire the centerpiece of a combine («Monogram»); when he riveted road signs and car parts together in a sculpture («Stop Side Early Winter Glut»), he was pursuing an omnivorous communal imperative.
The most famous of the combines is Monogram (1955 - 59), a taxidermied Alpaca goat with a tire around its waist, standing on a silk - screened painting, which features prominently in the exhibit.
While Mr. Rauschenberg was glorying in incorporating objects like taxidermied animals into what became known as combines, Mr. Johns was painting maps, targets, numbers and alphabets that, like Mr. Rauschenberg's inventions, made viewers rethink the nature of art itself.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg, most known for his «Combines,» (paintings which incorporate found materials such as taxidermy and truck tires), acquired a Willem de Kooning drawing and erased it, re-titling the work Erased de Kooning Drawing.
Combine: oil, paper, fabric, printed reproductions, metal, wood, rubber shoe - heel, and tennis ball on two conjoined canvases with oil on taxidermied Angora goat with brass plaque and rubber tire on wood platform mounted on four casters.
The work, considered a «combine,» juxtaposes seemingly unrelated objects — including a painted taxidermy goat, a car tire and a tennis ball.
Among its many highlights, Robert Rauschenberg presents the artist's widely celebrated Combines (1954 — 64) and silkscreen paintings (1962 — 64) in fresh ways, including two rarely lent works: Charlene (1954), the last and largest from the artist's series of Red Paintings, which incorporates mirrors, part of a man's undershirt, an umbrella, comic strips, and a light that flashes on and off; and Monogram (1955 — 59), Rauschenberg's famous Combine assembled from a taxidermied angora goat and a tire, positioned on a painted and collaged wooden platform.