This artist wanted to make an homage to JFK. It turned into a memorial.
HARTFORD, CONN. — In 1963, Robert Rauschenberg sent some photographs culled from magazines — including a photo of John F. Kennedy — to a commercial silk-screen fabricator. The 1960 Kennedy photograph showed the then-senator, who had since become president, gesturing emphatically during a debate with President Richard M. Nixon.
The year 1963 was productive for Rauschenberg. In the spring, the Jewish Museum in New York gave him his first museum retrospective. Around the same time, he staged an audacious performance at a roller-skating rink. Wearing stretched parachute silk on his back, he and other performers glided around to a collage of sounds from radio and television, interspersed with music by Handel and Haydn.Then, in the fall, everything turned to ashes.
Rauschenberg liked the idea of operating in the space between art and life. “I want my paintings to look like what’s going on outside my window rather than inside my studio,” he said. He was trying to evoke the way things press in on our consciousness. Concussed by world events gleaned from the news, we look out the window and see a fruit stand or a construction site. A glass of water stands on the countertop.
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