Since you've been creating morphed sculptures I've been thinking about Robert Rauschenberg-- an artist who pushed the limits of sculpture and painting. He is credited with inventing the art form now known as "Combines" -- you can think of them as morphs. He walked around New York City picking up trashed objects like work boots and car tires, to be incorporated into his paintings.
When he died in 2008 (at age 83 ) this beautiful video was made of an exhibit of his Combines.
He and a group of other artists and musicians composed the music you'll hear in the background. It, too, was a kind of mophing of sounds and chance arrangements.
Look, listen, learn and leave your comments.
46 comments:
At first when I looked at the pieces, at first glance they looked like any other ordinary piece of art. However when they zoomed in on parts of the pieces of art you can see a lot of the different details that Mr. Rauschenberg included. One of the most interesting pieces I saw was the one with the fan that was on and blowing on the piece. It almost looked as though he was trying to dry off the paint in the piece he was working on. Also the combination of the eerie music seemed to make the pieces both mysterious and give you the feeling that something is going to happen
I thought it was really interesting how he took all these completely different objects and morphed them into one. Our projects are only of one medium, his are of much more. I liked the piece with the fans, moving parts on a sculpture are really cool to me. The music, on the other hand, really weirded me out. It was a tad frightening.
I really liked how Robert Rauschenberg, in some of his works, used objects that maybe seemed to be taking over other objects. For instance the goat was not natural any more but being taken over by the tire and on a platform of brown instead of being something that you would assume it to be green. I also noticed that Rauschenberg used a lot of red in his pieces, which made me think that the main object was being destroyed by the objects surrounding it. Maybe I am taking his work in a very negative and morbid track but it seems that something is unwanted, destroyed, or being over taken by something else. The animals that he uses also show the morbid qualities because of the way the are morphed into things that do not seem that they should be together.
The music definitely struck to me as creepy at first, but I think it fits his sculptures well in that the sounds are random -- I can imagine the artists and musicians around instruments but also garbage, tapping out sounds erratically.
I'm a bit on the fence for Rauschenberg's art though. I've always been more inclined to like pieces that heed attention to detail and precision, so this sort of mish-mash of things isn't as appealing to me. However, it still takes quite some effort to sometimes even intentionally make things look messy but aesthetically appealing. For me, I liked the raven piece the most.
Well to start off, I loved the piece with the two fans that blew, although this is not his most signature work, I think that this piece is something that I could connect with. The simplicity and class of it make me want to know more just about how he created it and why he chose to add fans. His pieces are also this sort of mystery and questionable art form that makes you wonder "why" overall. Espeically with the somewhat dangerous and creepyesque music playing in the background. Some of the forms and combines make me feel like these objects were once in a scary movie or used as horror films props. I enjoy his artistic ability overall. R.I.P.
The music and the way they made the video is almost cooler than the art. It is really interesting how each piece of music complements the art and makes experiencing the art different than if one were to just see it.
The music really gave this art work an ominous feel which is cool but i feel that it took a bit away from the art work. I was paying more attention to how the art work affected the music as oppose to the other way around.
I think the video was really cool. I really liked how he morphed together objects that usually don’t mix or match. I also like how he played with theme. Like how even though the objects and pieces traditionally didn’t go together he made them seem as if they had a purpose of being together. I also like how he experimented with color in his pieces. I like how the different colors he used set the mood for whatever theme he was trying to convey. I also liked the theme music playing in the background. I thought that it fit his artwork very well.
I don't know if it's just me but the impression I had of a lot of his pieces was that of a very rustic, mid-western, apocalyptic type emotion. The music really exacerbated this effect too, through its discordant and separated sounds.
Although I never thought much about how everyday objects found on the street could be transformed into elaborate pieces of artwork until we started our project, Rauschenberg's Combines inspired me to start looking at my surroundings more closely. I thought it was interesting how the mix of music was incorporated into this piece. My favorite part was how the music became more drastic and dreadful when the camera zoomed in on seemingly normal objects, such as a boot or dog. Yet, it made you wonder why that abandoned pair of boots was found my Rauschenberg on the street. What was the fate of the person who used to walk in them? This exhibit got my mind racing and that's what I liked most about it!
I felt like the music kind of indicated how you were supposed to feel about the artwork. Like for a piece that I would have otherwise found just cool to look at, the ominous music made me focus on the potentially creepy aspects of the piece. My favorite was the goat and the tire.
This artist is really creative with his use of materials and the placement of these materials. I like the idea of morphing various objects into one piece because if we saw these items individually, they don't look like they would belong as one, but they work well together. I also enjoy how he makes the animals look like they are coming out of the piece, straight at you. In the beginning of the video, I thought it was just a normal painting, but as the camera zoomed out I realized it was a ram. I thought that was interesting.
I think its really interesting how he took pieces from all around and created many different sculptures with them. I like the idea of using more than just one type of object, although I still like that we are only using sticks. I really liked the one with the dog on the leash, it was interestingly portrayed, and I think the music accompanied it well.
I think it is very interesting. his work of art is very intriguing. it left me wondering about time consumption but i think it is interesting how he could take things from all around the world and make them unique
I love how varied the textures of each piece is. That seems like a large advantage to multimedia sculpture - with different materials you can achieve many new, interesting textures that would be hard to replicate with only one sculpting material. I would love to do something like this because most the things we have done have employed only one or two materials.
Maybe I just don't have an "artistic eye", but honestly, I didn't really like his pieces. I hate to say it, but it just looked like a bunch of random objects glued together and I didn't see any meaning or point behind it. Especially that one with the goat. Not my favorite.
Its interesting, but its not necessarily catching my idea, and the music sounded like i was in a scary movie
A problem that I encountered while making my own morphed piece was trying to make it look like an actual, recognizable object. After taking a look at Robert Rauschenberg's morphed combines, I realized that the morphed piece doesn't need to look like a definite object. The fact that Rauschenberg made many structures that were unidentifiable is what I think makes his work so interesting to look at. I found it interesting to look at the variety of objects that constructed the overall piece. And also, the music was very different and played unexpectedly. I feel like it replicates Rauschenberg's combines.
I think it is the music that made look at these works a different way, without it, I would have just glanced at them once and probably would have looked away, but the music does kind of set the tone to how the pieces are supposed to feel. Made me look harder at the cluster of stuff and notice the detail more. It still isnt very appealing in the end due to the messiness, but it definitely should be appreciated
its not my favorit of the blog post, but there is a cool spest to them
The music really influenced the art. Had it not been for the background music I would have interpreted the pieces the differently. They seem to be portrayed as creepy and almost cynical.
I find artists like Rauschenberg who create "combines" or artists who create ready-mades to be quite fascinating. I think that they're on a whole other level of art because they are creating works from objects that already exist rather than starting from scratch so to speak. Although sometimes it feels as though a combine is not original I think that each and every one of them has a symbolic meaning or a story behind it which is why they are indeed authentic. I do agree that the music in this video kind of took away from the pieces because the effects were just too distracting. My favorite one would have to be the cart with the bucket.
After watching the video i really liked all the pieces. I was really intrigued that from far away the sculptures looked like they were all one and then when they zoomed in you saw all the different pieces. But what i liked most of all was the music. I thought the music fit for every piece and really gave you a different perspective of the piece.
I find some of these sculptures to be creepy (mainly the one with the goat). However, I found others to be strangely beautiful especially the one where he morphed a rusty bucket into a painting. I liked how he morphed together paintings and sculptures, and how he able to blur the lines between artistic mediums.
I really wasn't feeling this artist. There were a few pieces that I liked, ones that were on canvas and didn't have many additional objects added, but for the most part, I just found the works to feel disconnected and disjointed. Or maybe it was the just the influence the "music" had on me, which I found to be distracting. I think I spent more time flinching at screechy notes, than thinking about some of the artwork.
His MOROPH(S)! would deff get a 25/25 in my gradebook. I liked how he repurposed the pieces in such a fashion that the new item he created seemed better than new. I would love to know what inspired some of his pieces because I was lost on some of the meanings of the pairings. Unless, he is just using any materials that he finds...
i found his pieces to be very morbid in theme, especially the got and the industrial/rust pieces, but also disturbingly beautiful. It is interesting how he merged his sculptures with paintings.
I really liked the ominous music, and I felt like it really added to the presentation of his artwork. I also liked the concept of combining 2 and 3 dimensional artwork, which isn't really comparable to a lot of stuff I'm used to seeing
I really like his use of color and the way that so many random things can be put together to become one piece. He used a lot of the same colos in different piece, like lots of reds and greys but the colors seemed to contribute something unique to each piece. I also thought it was really creative of him to use all those everyday things to make art.
The morphed sound really adds a dramatic effect to each sculpture and in a way matches the random paint slpattering on each piece.If there was no music to accompany the art , the message wouldn't be the same.
The most memorable part of this video was seeing how Mr. Rauschenberg incorporated everyday objects (even objects that some people might consider trash) into his paintings. Instead of merely using tradition canvases he used 3D objects to paint on, which takes his works to a whole new level. I also like his bold use of color and brush strokes in some of his paintings. The music was very ominous and gave the artwork an ominous tone, but if you watched the video without the sound, it gave the artwork a much less dark tone.
I'm conflicted about this video. I liked the art, but I hated the music. Rauschenberg didn't write the music, so I'm wondering if the message conveyed in the video is the one he wanted people to see. The sculptures displayed without music (as they're pictured) would have a much different effect on most people.
It was interesting to see how Rauschenberg was able to morph different objects together. Some of his work was beautiful, but there were some pieces that I didn't find as striking. His ability to put paintings and sculptures together,in such a way, is just memorable.
Honestly i can't say that i'm in love with his artwork, i think it's kind of cool that he combined all of this stuff but i don't find it aesthetically pleasing. It doesn't mean anything to me when i look at it, it's just a bunch of stuff that's thrown together. i do appreciate how they were made of a wide variety of objects though and i particularly liked the fan piece. I was not a fan of the music however, it was slightly creepy.
The music really adds a sort of creepy vibe to the video which I think suits his pieces. For example the first piece that was shown with the goat and this kind of mushed on paint or material of some sort caught me off guard. i'm really sure if I'm a fan of his work.
The music was a little distracting but i think it went with the feel of the pictures. I liked alot of the pieces because of the 3d aspect giving differnt perspective as the camera moved around. It overall looked very wierd and kinda odd art but i liked it and the vast differneces between every picture. You cant create two lambs in with a wheal around it bc those objects were very unique.
I think that the music adds a different layer of meaning to the general theme. I think that this takes away from the real beauty of all of the pictures rather than complimenting them.
Wow! They sure did a lot of work in putting this video together. I think the music drowns out the art in a sense, because it gives you a naturally creepy perception of the artwork. It is creepy art, but the music really brings this idea home. I also like the film work, it was very well done.
i thought the goat at the bringing looked dirty more then it looked like art. it almost looked like a city goat that was homeless.
(Sorry this is super late Ms. G!)
It takes serious skill to make something using "recycled" objects. For me, I as trying to create something that looked like objects I already knew the shape of, but Rob is on to something here. Creating these combination pieces, he did not focus on what is was going to look like in the end (would it look like a goat instead of a yak, or maybe it will have a shield and it an be a warrior goat, etc.). Rob focused on how to combine the objects he had to create something new. It wasn't always recognizable and most of the placements would not have been my first choice, but that's because he didn't try to create a new recognizable shape, rather just a new piece of art.
The pieces appeal to a sort of apocalyptic, biblical persona with a third world feel to them, and personally i find them somewhat depressing. Im not sure i like his art, because although their emotional, they don't really convey much of a point, and the feel somewhat apathetic toward the viewer.
The pieces themselves put me in the mind of an urban version of Andy Goldsworthy's photography in which he would find materials in nature and put the together. The music gave the pieces a strange, but enticing feel to the video as well.
The pieces themselves put me in the mind of an urban version of Andy Goldsworthy's photography in which he would find materials in nature and put the together. The music gave the pieces a strange, but enticing feel to the video as well.
All of the pieces were really intriguing and well put together. Rauschenberg added pieces to his sculptures that made them look strange, but not in a bad way. The music also sounded weird,so I guess it matched perfectly with his pieces. The piece that I liked the most was the goat, with the tire around its body, because of how well-made the face is,and the different colors he included there.
The music seemed very creepy and the art work seemed pretty common.
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