Short Circuit, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Weil, Elaine Sturtevant
Short Circuit is a mixed-medium artwork created by Robert Rauschenberg in 1955, and it was further modified in 1968. It possesses a three-dimensional cabinet structure with two swinging doors, and internally smuggled two artworks by other artists. They are an untitled painting by Susan Weil and An Original Sturtevant flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant. The Circuit is sized 41.5 by 38.25 by 4.5 inches. This type of work incorporates diverse artworks, paints, printed reproductions, fabrics, oil and various readymade materials, which was later defined as Rauschenberg’s “combine painting”. Short Circuit challenged the boundaries within mediums, materials and the artistic authenticity. …show more content…
Focusing on the first section, it is a decent landscape collages which arouses contrasts of gender and art medium within a miscellaneous frame. On the canvas, the brownish panel is framed by rusty white paints, which they softly blended together. When a stroke of rusty yellowish green was painted over the upper right corner, a thin white stroke was extended from the left, and ended with a triangular messy silhouette. On the other side, a classical curtain was gently hanged on the bottom. All these elements framed the collages material, and presented a mood of everyday …show more content…
Regarding to the door, its dullness and senility of white contrast with the left-hand door. Its numerous separated thin scratches and darkened edges provide a mood of void and loneliness. Moreover, they intimated the artist’s motions which embedded his psychology. On the contrary, when the audience follows the “Look Inside” sign carved on its bottom left corner, he will find an untitled painting by Susan Weil. Her childish crude brushstrokes constructed a joyful scene of five men’s reunion on a greenfield. Under a pale blue sky filled with solid curvy clouds, the greenfield took four-fifth areas on the canvas. Roughly vertical strokes were nonuniformly painted in various dark greens. Meanwhile, translucent white paints permeated from the left and right bottom corner, so the green background is partially whitened. On this childish but organic backdrop, five stylized unproporitonal men are standing in a row, and all facing their canvas’ center. While the man in the middle lifted up his left leg, they all energetically raised their arms like a celebration. And their costumes were simply colored as blue, red, orange, blue and violet. Technically, there is only weak sense of three-dimensional space by overlapping and skills of painting, but it gives a comfortable mood of nature and
Short Circuit is a mixed-medium artwork created by Robert Rauschenberg in 1955, and it was further modified in 1968. It possesses a three-dimensional cabinet structure with two swinging doors, and internally smuggled two artworks by other artists. They are an untitled painting by Susan Weil and An Original Sturtevant flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant. The Circuit is sized 41.5 by 38.25 by 4.5 inches. This type of work incorporates diverse artworks, paints, printed reproductions, fabrics, oil and various readymade materials, which was later defined as Rauschenberg’s “combine painting”. Short Circuit challenged the boundaries within mediums, materials and the artistic authenticity. …show more content…
Focusing on the first section, it is a decent landscape collages which arouses contrasts of gender and art medium within a miscellaneous frame. On the canvas, the brownish panel is framed by rusty white paints, which they softly blended together. When a stroke of rusty yellowish green was painted over the upper right corner, a thin white stroke was extended from the left, and ended with a triangular messy silhouette. On the other side, a classical curtain was gently hanged on the bottom. All these elements framed the collages material, and presented a mood of everyday …show more content…
Regarding to the door, its dullness and senility of white contrast with the left-hand door. Its numerous separated thin scratches and darkened edges provide a mood of void and loneliness. Moreover, they intimated the artist’s motions which embedded his psychology. On the contrary, when the audience follows the “Look Inside” sign carved on its bottom left corner, he will find an untitled painting by Susan Weil. Her childish crude brushstrokes constructed a joyful scene of five men’s reunion on a greenfield. Under a pale blue sky filled with solid curvy clouds, the greenfield took four-fifth areas on the canvas. Roughly vertical strokes were nonuniformly painted in various dark greens. Meanwhile, translucent white paints permeated from the left and right bottom corner, so the green background is partially whitened. On this childish but organic backdrop, five stylized unproporitonal men are standing in a row, and all facing their canvas’ center. While the man in the middle lifted up his left leg, they all energetically raised their arms like a celebration. And their costumes were simply colored as blue, red, orange, blue and violet. Technically, there is only weak sense of three-dimensional space by overlapping and skills of painting, but it gives a comfortable mood of nature and