Slående
som
den klappeged
ligner
Picassos
skulptur,
som man
bestemt
ikke må
klappe,
begge geder
til gengæld
må man
gerne
klappe AD,
og det
burde man
måske
lige huske
at gøre!
An artist friend in London prompted me to ask about a less obvious
connection. He guessed that early in their careers Johns and
Rauschenberg had found Picasso's 1914 painted bronze sculpture "Glass of
Absinthe" a singularly generative object.
Johns did not answer
yes or no; he seldom does. He said, "I think that's probably true. I
think I thought that it was absolutely wonderful, the casting, the
painting, the addition of the sugar spoon - all of it. In a sense it's
like the Duchamp glass piece, all those different materials used in
slightly different ways."
Spoons figure among the common objects Johns has built into his own work.
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