Untitled
Raymond Hains
1959-1960
Posters on metal mounted on wood
The piece looks like a painted piece of rusted metal and it reminds me of a billboard or something I would see lying on the side of the road. It looks to be made out of old garbage or newspapers.
There is something interesting about seeing this piece -- which looks dirty and old -- inside the white and pristine rooms of the Walker. The piece was made in 1959 -1960, so doing some research on the time and place the artist made the work could give some interesting clues as to the content
Potentail content / questions / class reactions
ReplyDelete- looked really dirty and rusty, weird to see that piece in the walker?
- something dirty, old, side walk / old wearhouse
- makes you mad --> BECAUSE: as a stand along piece.... just a bunch of rusted junk - no context?
- Propaganda posters from Paris - subtext between the rust and the content of the poster?
- I like thee rusy feel (like Montana) - habby chique, Down town Detrit
like the dull colors
- save metal for the war / leftovers?
- as are the posters?
- what is it worth (the aftermath of war)
- paris o longerthe center for art
what we know
- collected political posters and scrap metal - made posters from it
- French posters
-post war (recovery)
what we don't know
- content of the posters?
-How old are the posters
- Post war (recover)
- Politics of France at this eara?
-intent? before this was "In a museum" - what was the purpose - for the artist to make this work?
- was it intended to be in a musueum?