Not exact matches
Rauschenberg explained the White
Paintings as
hypersensitive surfaces that registered changes in their surroundings.
He was attacked for negativism, but, as he later explained, these
paintings were supposed to be «
hypersensitive»: shadows on them would indicate how many people were in the room or what time it was.
In Edgar Allan Poe's story The Fall of the House of Usher, the doomed,
hypersensitive Roderick Usher plays blues - like guitar music and
paints abstractions that suck the mind into their desolation: it is an uncanny prophesy of the noble despair of Rothko, who is of all America's creative giants the most pessimistic.
White
Paintings, Black
Paintings, and Red
Paintings In 1951, Rauschenberg produced his monochromatic «White
Paintings» - referred to by some art critics as
hypersensitive screens which registered the smallest adjustments in lighting and atmosphere on their surface, and by sceptics as blank canvases.