Ok I give! I googled theses guys to see what I could find out, and had no luck with the name. So I'm going to say Pollock. The boat paintings are great! The atmosphere and stories they sugguest are wonderful.
About 10 years ago I heard him give a talk in Los Angeles. He had a great laugh and told a lot of amusing stories, one of which was how he got his name.
Young Milton Rauschenberg had just got out of the navy and was sitting in a coffee shop. He asked himself, "What is it that I really dislike about myself?", and the answer was that he never wanted to be called 'Milton' again. So he made a list of names and chose 'Bob'. Later, he had his first show in New York and when he looked at the announcements the gallery had printed up, he noticed they'd changed 'Bob Rauschenberg' to 'Robert Rauschenberg'.
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Nice paintings - the crusty old traditionalist in me likes the top one (tug?) best.
I'll go for Pollock, on the grounds that he wanted to lose the Puritan associations of the author of PL.
Ok I give! I googled theses guys to see what I could find out, and had no luck with the name.
So I'm going to say Pollock.
The boat paintings are great! The atmosphere and stories they sugguest are wonderful.
I'm going to guess Frank Stella. I know it can't be (b), who would change their name TO Rauschenberg?
Love the paintings, btw. I agree about the tug.
The answer is Robert Rauschenberg!
About 10 years ago I heard him give a talk in Los Angeles. He had a great laugh and told a lot of amusing stories, one of which was how he got his name.
Young Milton Rauschenberg had just got out of the navy and was sitting in a coffee shop. He asked himself, "What is it that I really dislike about myself?", and the answer was that he never wanted to be called 'Milton' again. So he made a list of names and chose 'Bob'. Later, he had his first show in New York and when he looked at the announcements the gallery had printed up, he noticed they'd changed 'Bob Rauschenberg' to 'Robert Rauschenberg'.
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