After AbEx

American art in the late 1950s, Minimalism

• Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) “"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)"

• Jasper Johns (1930-)• John Cage (1912-1992)• “Neo-Dada”

Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting [seven panel], 1951. Oil on canvas, 72 x 125 x 1 1/2 inches

“I think that I'm never sure of what the impulse is psychologically. I don't mess around with my subconscious. I mean I try to keep wide awake. And if I see in the superficial subconscious relationships that I'm familiar with, cliches of association, I change the picture. I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested. “ Rauschenberg in 1963. ‘There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. And I never could I don't know whether it was from my Albers training or my own personal hangup, but I never could see those qualities in paint.’”

Robert RauschenbergErased de Kooning Drawing 1953

Rauschenberg on Erased De Kooning

• Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955

Robert Rauschenberg, Portrait of Iris Clert, 1961

Robert Rauschenberg - 'Canyon', 1959

Rauschenberg’s Monogram

Jasper Johns

• May 15, 1930-• (83 years old)• Collaborations/cohabitations with

Rauschenberg

• Jasper Johns, Flag, 1955

Johns, White flag, 1955

Target w/Four Faces, 1955

• Jasper Johns, Do It Yourself (Target), 1960

• Painting with Two Balls, 1960

Jasper Johns Flag at auction in 2010

• Jasper Johns, set for Walkaround Time, 1968 (Merce Cunningham dance tribute to Marcel Duchamp)

John Cage & Merce Cunningham, Variations V (excerpts)

John Cage, water walk