Eager Not to Miss the Rauschenberg Retrospective at the Tate Modern, Graham Hooper Guides us Through This Extraordinary Show.
The last image in the 412-page catalogue for Tate Modern’s current high profile retrospective, “Robert Rauschenberg”, shows one on the artists most iconic ‘combines’ in x-ray. Called Monogram, it combines sculpture (a stuffed goat and a car tyre) with painting and general mixed media collage to create, as the name suggests, a very personal motif. The alchemy of hugely diverse materials (newspaper cuttings, metal, wood and plaster, with a shoe and tennis ball all set on casters) and in such a playful and daring mix is probably just as provocative and exciting now as it was back in late 50’s America. The fact that it is no ordinary photograph, but an x-ray no less, highlights the inventive use of technology and the desire to see the world differently that was so characteristic of this all-rounder artist.
Born in the small oil-town of Port Arthur, Texas, where being an artist wasn’t ever a career option, Rauschenberg only discovered the possibility after a chance encounter with art in a gallery whilst on leave from the Navy. He recognised a Gainsborough as the design from a reproduction on the back of a set of playing cards. Such experiences, plus his formative years in Post-War Texas, were to influence the rest of his prolific and diverse creative output over the next six decades. Port Arthur, now the site of a significant oil refinery, always had the petro-chemical industry in its soul, and Rauschenberg’s work is no different. Throughout his long and productive career oil, cars, tyres all reappear to remind us of his roots.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Joel Kern
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Free At Last!
Fourth Monkey Actor Training company announces accredited BA (Hons) Acting course and the introduction of audition fee wavers for all.
Looking Closely
Two contrasting exhibitions caught the eye of our graham Hooper
Composed Comfort
Paul Fincham is a composer whose carol Ring The Bells will be sung in concerts all over the country this christmas and whose opera The Happy Princess got good reviews last summer. Susan Elkin meets him.
What Makes A Good Pantomime?
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A Rye Gem
Susan Elkin met with Theatre Peckham AD Suzann Mclean, discovering this hub has much to offer
Playing Shakespeare With Deutsche Bank
Proving an unmitigated success, the annual Playing Shakespeare season at The Globe promises to enthral, engage and entertain thousands more teenagers this spring. Susan Elkin is a huge, well wrapped up fan.
Dancers Wellbeing
As the Head of Dance at READ College, I am passionate about ensuring that my young students have the very best start to their professional dance training and consequently their future careers. This means educating our young people about how to look after themselves both physically and psychologically.
Supporting Students Through Design
Hot on the heels of the new digital Theatre+ platform release featured in last month’s Inkpellet (see bit.ly/Ip112Nov16), we asked matthew Nichols (director of drama, manchester Grammar school and chief Examiner of GcsE drama, aQa) to take us through his ideal playlist on dT+, as a guide for drama teachers looking to use digital resources to support the teaching of design skills in the classroom.
Careers In Theatre
Susan Elkin Pays a Visit to Half Moon Theatre to Learn How They Are Enthusing Pupils to Look at Possible Careers in the Theatre.