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Article: ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, ON `AMERICAN MASTERS'.(Television)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 7, 1999
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As a young artist, he awoke one morning with an urge to paint but no money for a canvas. Solution: He appropriated his own pillow and quilt, caking them with paint, toothpaste and fingernail polish, then mounting this concoction on a frame. ``Bed'' set off fireworks in the art world.
More than four decades later, Robert Rauschenberg remains a celebrated troublemaker and, at age 73, busier than ever. Too many ideas beckon, but he still can't say no.
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