There is the tangible (a cheap set
of assets, easily measured), and the intangible — artistic expression, whether in
painting, music, acting, etc. (where
values are not only
relative, but contradictory — except perhaps for Keynes» beauty contest).
Increasing valuation dispersion around the globe has opened up many great opportunities for the patient
value investor, the mirror image — tumbling popularity, tumbling
relative valuations, and tumbling historical returns —
of the picture
painted by low beta.
In this interview Rauschenberg speaks
of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship
of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation
of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance
of that element in his work; the facsimile quality
of painting and consequent limitations; the influence
of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime»
of painting and the problems
of time
relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility
of truly simulating chance in his work; his use
of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence
of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges
of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance
of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss
of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing
of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect
of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation
of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white
paintings; and his disapproval
of value hierarchy in art.
Each
painting in this exhibition began as an investigation into color's three distinct attributes: hue (a single, pure color),
value (the lightness or darkness
of a color), and saturation (the
relative purity or intensity
of a color).»