Blog #4

"...I don't think any honest artist sets out to make art. You love art. You live art. You are art. You do art. But you're just doing something. You're doing what no one can stop you from doing." This statement really drew me in. It's as if being an artist is not just a job or chore, it's a way of living, it's who you are. It's as if the artist and the art are one, there is no separation. I really like how Robert spoke about the way he produced his art, without thinking. It reminded me of Pollock, letting your mind wander and seeing what comes out.

Rauschenberg's Note on Painting honestly made no sense to me. I couldn't understand what message he was trying to convey. It's as if he was using certain words to reference something, but I couldn't figure out what.

The opening paragraph is very interesting as well. "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made." I feel he is saying art is like life, it just is. No one can make it, it is just there. I think my favorite thing Rauschenberg said was, "painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement," because I feel he is saying that paintings are at their best when they just happen, not when they are forced as means of trophies. I think he feels that paintings are better when they are made with feeling from the artist's core as opposed to something that was produced for means of making money.