The Eerie poetry that small girls chant (or compose) as they skip rope and the strange rhythmical games involving hand clapping or bouncing balls that children improvise on city streets have been recorded by an imaginative sound engineer named Tony Schwartz, in what the New York Times the other day called
the most original piece of work ever put on records.
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....