Rauschenberg integrated printing techniques, using photographs gleaned from newspapers and magazines and transferred to canvas by a silkscreen method, to continue the spirit of assemblage he had pioneered earlier. Creek's iconography balances the topical—space flight and the urban landscape—with the timeless—Rubens's Venus before the Mirror. Their juxtapositions are random, yet provocative enough to make the viewer speculate about the power of love and human feats. Rauschenberg’s roots in painting are vividly evident in the expressively brushed passages and in the lyrical combination of colors.
Details
Artist | Robert Rauschenberg, American, 1925-2008 |
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Date | 1964 |
Medium | screenprint in oil on canvas |
Dimensions | Unframed: 72 × 96 inches (182.9 × 243.8 cm) Framed: 72 5/8 × 96 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (184.5 × 245.7 × 4.8 cm) |
Credit Line | Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry |
Accession Number | 69.48 |
Department | Contemporary Art after 1950 |
On View | About Children S250, Level 2 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions | Inscribed, on verso, in red, upper left: CREEK | RAUSCHENBERG | 1964 |
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Provenance
the artist;
dealer, Leo Castelli Gallery (New York, New York, USA).
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
dealer, Leo Castelli Gallery (New York, New York, USA).
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
The Toledo Museum of Art. Heritage and Horizon. 1976, no. 60.
Forge, A. Rauschenberg. New York, 1970, p.101.
Forge, A. Rauschenberg. New York, 1970, p.101.