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| Erased de Kooning by Robert Rauschenberg |
Sabina Ott originally told this story in class my first year in Chicago:
"Rauschenberg and Willem de Kooning were friends, and Rauschenberg asked for a drawing from de Kooning. Rauschenberg erased the drawing, framed it, titled it, and exhibited it and that is how Erased de Kooning came to be."
Art movements are reactionary, and Robert Rauschenberg basically said "Fuck you" to Abstract Expressionism by erasing the drawing of a famous Abstract Expressionist and exhibiting it, thus beginning the Conceptual Art movement. This is one of my favorite art history stories and Rauschenberg is one of my favorite artists. Conceptual art: the idea takes precedence over the aesthetics of the piece.
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