The need to share NOTE:Read the description for the meaning of the work if you're confused
Robert Rauschenburg (American)
b.1925 Port Arthur,Texas
d.2008 Captiva,Florida
Black Market (1961)
Movement-Pop art
-oil,watercolor,pencil,paper,fabric, newspaper,printed reproductions,wood,metal,tin,street sign,metal,license plate,and four metal clipboards on canvas with rope,chain,and wood suitcase containing rubber stamps,ink pad,and typed instructions
regarding objects to be given and taken.
Black Market was first displayed in the Art in Motion in Amsterdam in 1961,where Rauschenburg placed the suitcase attached to the painting on the floor below it with an assortment of objects inside.Viewers were invited to take an item and replace it with one of their own and to make a drawing of their contribution on one of the clipboards attached to the canvas.This is why the piece is called Black Market as it's an unofficial exchange of objects and it shows everyone is a blur in a chaotic city (NYC i.e,because the objects were found there and made to look like rectangular buildings,overlapping one another,and looking chaotic) where no one properly talks or communicates,but the piece makes people exchange an object with someone they don't know which shows a simple message of sharing in a busy atmosphere.When Rauschenburg found out that visitors were stealing the objects instead of replacing them,he withdrew the invitation.
The need to share NOTE:Read the description for the meaning of the work if you're confused
Robert Rauschenburg (American)
b.1925 Port Arthur,Texas
d.2008 Captiva,Florida
Black Market (1961)
Movement-Pop art
-oil,watercolor,pencil,paper,fabric, newspaper,printed reproductions,wood,metal,tin,street sign,metal,license plate,and four metal clipboards on canvas with rope,chain,and wood suitcase containing rubber stamps,ink pad,and typed instructions
regarding objects to be given and taken.
Black Market was first displayed in the Art in Motion in Amsterdam in 1961,where Rauschenburg placed the suitcase attached to the painting on the floor below it with an assortment of objects inside.Viewers were invited to take an item and replace it with one of their own and to make a drawing of their contribution on one of the clipboards attached to the canvas.This is why the piece is called Black Market as it's an unofficial exchange of objects and it shows everyone is a blur in a chaotic city (NYC i.e,because the objects were found there and made to look like rectangular buildings,overlapping one another,and looking chaotic) where no one properly talks or communicates,but the piece makes people exchange an object with someone they don't know which shows a simple message of sharing in a busy atmosphere.When Rauschenburg found out that visitors were stealing the objects instead of replacing them,he withdrew the invitation.