The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Surface Series from Currents
1970
(American, 1925–2008)
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Sheet: 111.6 x 111.6 cm (43 15/16 x 43 15/16 in.); Image: 89 x 89 cm (35 1/16 x 35 1/16 in.)
Gift of Joseph and Lucy Russell 2011.109
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Catalogue raisonné: Foster 152, no. 115
Location: not on view
Description
Robert Rauschenberg questioned the relationship of art and the news in a moment of great social and political change. He collaged headlines and images from mainstream and counterculture newspapers published in early 1970. This jumble of scraps evokes the artist’s studio tabletop or a newspaper designer’s light table. To make the final printing plate, Rauschenberg manually cut and pasted different elements together (in the form of photographic negatives), visually presenting the tension between art and the news where the photographs overlap. The gridded arrangement of the halftone dots conflict and create an optical effect known as moiré pattern.- Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.109