Clay Painting (for John Cage and Merce Cunningham)

Artist : Robert Rauschenberg

Year : 1992

Size : 43.5 x 57.8 x 6 cm

Media : Unfired clay on wood panel

connection between this artwork and my practice:

I have selected this artwork only in relation to my new work in which I used clay to paint.

I have a similar feeling about Rauschenberg and Alberto Burri. The texture of material the forms that material created during the time and making process is what I search for in both of these artwork. This work is more significant because Rauschenberg used clay as his materials.

To see a trace of artist’s fingerprint, hand making, and seeing making process are other important elements in this artwork.

Rauschenberg, similar to Burri questions the boundaries between painting and sculpture.