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BMW_Rauschenberg-4
BMW Art Car photo by Lydia Marcus
Photographed February 24, 2009 at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA)
As seen on my blog: fotonomous.blogspot.com/2009/02/bmw-art-cars-lacma.html
Robert Rauschenberg took a completely different approach, not attempting to play with the materiality or non-materiality of the car or suggest speed, wind, or movement like the others. Instead his painting is static and approaches a painted car from an almost educational point of view. "I think mobile museums would be a good idea," he said. "This car is the fulfillment of my dream." Renowned for his use of collage and a multiplicity of materials and forms, Rauschenberg employed a kind of appropriation in his BMW 635 CSi. The most humorous of the automobiles, Rauschenberg painted the hubcaps as though they were fragile antique plates and reproduced Bronzino's famous Portrait of a Young Man on one side of the car and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' Le Grande Odalisque on the other. In a reference to the posssible ecological damage caused by the proliferation of automobiles, the artist included his own photographs of flowers, trees, and swamp grass to the hood and roof. - Christopher Mount, Design Historian (From the LACMA catalogue BMW ART CARS February 12-24, 2009)
BMW_Rauschenberg-4
BMW Art Car photo by Lydia Marcus
Photographed February 24, 2009 at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA)
As seen on my blog: fotonomous.blogspot.com/2009/02/bmw-art-cars-lacma.html
Robert Rauschenberg took a completely different approach, not attempting to play with the materiality or non-materiality of the car or suggest speed, wind, or movement like the others. Instead his painting is static and approaches a painted car from an almost educational point of view. "I think mobile museums would be a good idea," he said. "This car is the fulfillment of my dream." Renowned for his use of collage and a multiplicity of materials and forms, Rauschenberg employed a kind of appropriation in his BMW 635 CSi. The most humorous of the automobiles, Rauschenberg painted the hubcaps as though they were fragile antique plates and reproduced Bronzino's famous Portrait of a Young Man on one side of the car and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' Le Grande Odalisque on the other. In a reference to the posssible ecological damage caused by the proliferation of automobiles, the artist included his own photographs of flowers, trees, and swamp grass to the hood and roof. - Christopher Mount, Design Historian (From the LACMA catalogue BMW ART CARS February 12-24, 2009)