moca @ night

MOCA is offering Rauschenberg to be shown at night during the summer.  Why not go since it's free...well, the thing wasn't free, but 5 bucks for students.  I still have my old CSUN id, which I carry everywhere (sidebar: you can get a discount in Panda Express near CSUN when you present your id).  Anyways, love the exhibition.  Didn't really know much about Rauschenberg.  I know his famous piece above Monogram, every art student who took modern art knew it.  His stuff is very inventive.  Mind you, this kind of work was done in the 1950's and 60's.  He predicted much of what is going on today regarding globalization and consumerism of America through his combines.  Rauschenberg used real stuffed birds and combined it with his collages and other found objects.  He also touched based with human nature.  When we followed the curator, she explained this one art piece which was a game piece.  An artist would draw (famous now and then aka. Jasper Johns) and put it on the metal clipboard and people would try to guess it.  It worked for a couple of hours into the show, but in the end, the drawings would start getting less and by the end there weren't any drawings.  Did he predict people would start taking the drawings and keeping it as souvenirs?  Of course he did, brilliant!   Many of  his work were intellectual and thought out, especially the coca cola bottles he used to symbolized globalized America.

One thing I didn't know about him, he is called Bob.  I have a thing for all Roberts who are named Bob...they are always unique and super cool.  For example, Bob Marley, Bob Newhart, Bob Hope, Bob Rauschenberg, Bob the usher from church.  Well, my Drawing 1 instructor told the class that, which I have tried to disprove, but always find Bob's to be cool kats, and yah his name is Bob.

Good times... try to catch it one of these hot summer nights, don't get the martinis, taste like juice (stingy on the liquor), a house wine will do.