Άρθρο/Article: Is ready-made art more powerful than
painting?
(©theguardian)
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Wonderful world … Jasper Johns, currently subject of a
Barbican exhibition alongside
Robert Rauschenberg, is among the great users of
found materials.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Image
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....With so many
artists picking up brushes or at least a pencil, is the idea that real things
can be appropriated as art bankrupt? Was it just a confidence trick?No. Found
objects, ready-mades, the stuff of the world – the terminology doesn't matter –
have vast potential. They offer artists something that can't be made: life
itself. Bad artists may resort to the ready-made as a shortcut or to conceal a
lack of talent. But good artists are attracted to it because it ensnares art in
real life....
