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Self Portrait With Erased Willem De Kooning Drawing By Robert Rauschenberg (2018)Acrylic painting by Gerard Boersma
20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54cm (unframed)
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Original artwork description
On this self portrait you see me enjoying a drawing by Willem de Kooning erased by Robert Rauschenberg. Yes you did read that right. The artwork by Rauschenberg is an erased drawing by De Kooning.
In the 50s Rauschenberg set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely through erasure. An act focused on the removal of marks rather than their accumulation.
Rauschenberg first tried erasing his own drawings but ultimately decided that in order for the experiment to succeed he had to begin with an artwork that was undeniably significant in its own right.
He approached Willem de Kooning, an artist for whom he had tremendous respect, and asked him for a drawing to erase. Somewhat reluctantly, de Kooning agreed. 'I give you a hard one to erase,' he reportedly had said.
Materials used:
Acrylic on masonite
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#erased drawing#abstract expressionism#drawing#realism#photorealism#hyperrealism#museum#looking at art#willem de kooning#looking at painting#art within art#robert rauschenberg
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Original artwork description
On this self portrait you see me enjoying a drawing by Willem de Kooning erased by Robert Rauschenberg. Yes you did read that right. The artwork by Rauschenberg is an erased drawing by De Kooning.
In the 50s Rauschenberg set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely through erasure. An act focused on the removal of marks rather than their accumulation.
Rauschenberg first tried erasing his own drawings but ultimately decided that in order for the experiment to succeed he had to begin with an artwork that was undeniably significant in its own right.
He approached Willem de Kooning, an artist for whom he had tremendous respect, and asked him for a drawing to erase. Somewhat reluctantly, de Kooning agreed. 'I give you a hard one to erase,' he reportedly had said.
Materials used:
Acrylic on masonite
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.32 x 20.32 x 2.54cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#erased drawing#abstract expressionism#drawing#realism#photorealism#hyperrealism#museum#looking at art#willem de kooning#looking at painting#art within art#robert rauschenberg
Gerard Boersma
Netherlands
About
I create colorful and highly detailed works of art to express my love for the modern human as well as my concerns about contemporary society.
My hyperreal paintings are based... Read more