A Slight Delay

Robert Rauschenberg died on Monday, May 12. He left behind a body of work that spanned six decades, and at least that many styles and media. While he could be stylistically linked with Warhol or Jasper Johns (also romantically linked, in the latter instance), his style–a pastiche of Dada, Pop, Merz, and anything else he happened to find (literally) was sui generis. The New York Times ran a good obituary on him that you can read here. In the meantime, I’ll let the artist himself have the last word:

“People ask me, “Don’t you ever run out of ideas?” In the first place I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea it’s too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven’t run out of curiosity.”