Rauschenberg

This is called Coca Cola Plan. I like the sculpture because it is a combination of items. I like the wings and how it makes coca cola seem powerful. The various array of media used is interesting and creative. I like how one coke bottle is plain, while others seem to have paint in them. The sketching on the wood is cool. The words below say "Plan, Lay out stretcher on floor, match markings and join."

Duchamps

  

Fountain is one of Duchamp’s most famous works and is widely seen as an icon of twentieth-century art. The original, which is lost, consisted of a standard urinal, usually presented on its back for exhibition purposes rather than upright, and was signed and dated ‘R. Mutt 1917.  I think this era of ready made art work is the best because is simple, lazy, but ingenious at the same time.  

Duchamp 1919, readymade rectifié de Mona Lisa.

A blow-up of the Mona Lisa with a moustache owned by the French Communist Party and stored at the Centre Pompidou for the next 100 years is given the task of advertising yet another Duchamp funeral. It is a strange fate that a sublime exercise in laziness by an anartist who managed to revolutionise 20th-century art processes is now being offered to the public as evidence against him. This small picture picked up at a street market and signed would have sufficed to abort the charitable mission of taking Duchamp back to his ridiculous early daubs which – although collected by great museums – came (regrettably for him) at least 5 or 6 years too late for the cruel and ridiculous law on newness and, above all, for his epiphanies at the various Parisian Salons of 1905 and 1911. 

Why not sneeze-Marcel Duchamp

This sculpture is a ready made sculpture made in 1921. He considered it to be ready made because the original object has been alter by Marcel. This sculpture is composed of a bird cage with 152 white cubes made of marble. The cubes resemble sugar cubes. The sculpture also has a thermometer, a piece of cuttlebone and a tiny porcelain dish.An explanation for the piece given by Duchamp involves the coldness of the marble cubes, the "heat-giving" properties of the sugar cubes, the thermometer evaluating temperature, and the sneezing that can result from cold. In commenting on the title Duchamp pointed out that there is a "dissociation gap" between sneezing at will and sneezing against one's will.

Robert Rauschenberg

Erased de Kooning Drawing was created by Robert Rauschenberg in 1953. In this "drawing" Rauschenberg erased a previous drawing created by William de Kooning in an attempt to push the boundaries of are. De Kooning intentionally chose a charcoal and pencil drawing to make Rauschenberg's job harder. It took two months and dozens of erasers, but de Kooning's drawing is still somewhat evident. Rauschenberg presented this as an art object because erasure is included in the realm of art. I chose this piece of art by Rauschenberg due to its controversial nature. There is a debate over what is considered art and Rauschenberg pushes those boundaries with this piece. 

Robert Rauschenberg- Signs (1970)

   

   One of Robert Rauschenberg's artworks that I am very fond of is called Signs, and was constructed in 1970. When the events of the 1960's came to a close, Rauschenberg created this collage as a summery of all that it contained. Entering the new decade, Rauschenberg's artwork is a perfect collaboration of historical events that were important during the American Era. Images include John F. Kennedy to represent his assassination, along with Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy. I think its important that depressing and negative parts of the decade are important to be expressed because they are a crucial part to American history. The art also includes an astronaut to represent a man landing on the moon in 1969.

Donald Judd

I chose the corner chair by Donald Juud because I enjoy the simplicity of the work he does. Most of his works involve the use of squares or rectangles in different dimensions that he puts together. This sculpture in particular is minimalist due to it being constructed of 5 pieces of wood. This is definitely a contemporary work of art.