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Robert Rauschenberg – Erased De Kooning Drawing, 1953 The webs have been obsessed of late with John Cage’s 1952 avant-garde masterpiece 4’33”; here is a similarly daring and influential conceptual gesture conceived by his colleague and friend, Robert Rauschenberg. Check out Rauschenberg describing how he solicited an existing drawing from Willem De Kooning and then erased it. [via Secret Forts]

Robert Rauschenberg – Erased De Kooning Drawing, 1953

The webs have been obsessed of late with John Cage’s 1952 avant-garde masterpiece 4’33”; here is a similarly daring and influential conceptual gesture conceived by his colleague and friend, Robert Rauschenberg. Check out Rauschenberg describing how he solicited an existing drawing from Willem De Kooning and then erased it.

[via Secret Forts]

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    I think this is beautiful. When John Cage asks us to listen to the natural music of silence, I find that
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