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Robert Rauschenberg - Combines

Homer presents three works, we can link them as a nod to the works of Robert Rauschenberg , that using the technique of "Combine paintings."

"Combine Paintings" or collages "is a style invented by himself Rauschenberg, and is based on the use of various everyday objects. These works - designed between 1954 and 1964 - breaking the formal barriers between sculpture, painting, photography, technology, performance and collage.

The first work that presents original name is Homer: Botched Hibachi but dubbing is presented as the Cobayashi bungling, and adds "a tricycle borrowed from the library Maggie Simpsons

Rauschenberg in several of his works used bibicletas and tires.

The second piece "Failed Shelving Unit with Stupid Stuck Chainsaw and Applesauce" Shelf translated stupid stuck zipper failed and applesauce .

Rauschenberg's piece also has a shelf is called Coca Cola Plan, and we note that the bottles are stained with paint, as in Homer's shelf is dotted with mashed potatoes. The fact of "tainting the works" Rauschenberg said "I am for an art that can stain a tablecloth ...". According Ramón Faura, Article Robert Rauschenberg: The shape of the Human , the act of spotting Paint the bottle "is intended to permeate subjectivity which is not an element of consumption without qualities."

And the third piece, which he calls his "thing resintons" Attempted Birdhouse One, dubbed as "Attempted an aviary."

Rauschenberg birds used in several of his works, perhaps the one closest to the one presented by Homer, is Odalisque - whose title refers to the reclining female nudes displayed in the box - where the artist uses various objects as a stuffed chicken and a pillow, to build the piece, and uses images to wrap an empty box .

Another point to consider is given in the first exhibition of Homer, Marge mentions that he can not understand Homer's work because it looks like "something out of the trash" in the trial The epic of the Dump: Robert Rauschenberg , mentioned that along with other pop artists of the time "I find it in dumpsters objects they rescue us, polished, painted their" restored "and returned to present works of art newly minted."

In closing, we must mention the fact that Robert Rauschenberg was gay and was girlfriend of Jasper Johns , and as noted by the blog Lespa Avelina. Art Criticism in the post dedicated to Rauschenberg "envied Warhol and Rauschenberg's appeal not because it needs them, New York was at his feet, but success and beauty is a cusp we all want."

Here the clip of the second exhibition of Homer.

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Christo and Jean-Claude

Almost at the end of this episode (Art Dad and Mom) , Homer and Lisa talk about Christo.

Christo Javacheff, is an artist of Bulgarian origin. His objects involved are some of the most extreme examples of modern conceptual art. He lived in France between 1958 and 1964, the year he moved to the United States.

Valdimiroff Javacheff Christo was born June 13, 1935 in Gabrovo, an industrial town in northern Bulgaria. Surprisingly, the same day the same year was born in Casablanca (Morocco) Jeanne-Claude in the midst of a military family. She would become his wife and partner inseparable.

The November 19, 2009, Jeanne-Claude died because he suffered a stroke at age 74 in New York.

"In our work it is always about freedom," once said Jeanne-Claude. "She is the enemy of possession and durability."

The artist also wants to maintain their freedom even after her death: she made available to your body science.

Lisa Homer suggests to try something more radical like Christ. She describes it as "a conceptual artist who makes great outdoor projects"

Land Art

mention Lisa These projects belong to the artistic movement called Land Art

This English expression has also been translated as "the art of landscape construction" or "land art."

consists in preparing works of art from the natural environment. Because their creations using the landscape as a support (scenario) or the raw material of the work. The fundamental principle of Land art is changing, with an artistic sense, the Earth's surface.

Creation Process.

In the work of Christo and Jean-Claude, stands out in three phases or periods, during the development of a project:

1. Phase imaginative dominated collage and drawing. Preparation of sketches, samples of materials, fabrics, ropes, plastics, for use in each intervention.
2. construction phase, for which have the illusion of thousands of volunteers, usually students of Fine Arts from schools around the world and companies that provide what is necessary, often making exclusively.
3. memory phase, is the way of registering the work, documented by post photos, audio, statistics and reports.

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Funding for these projects was provided by the sale of the sketches, materials, and photographic records, counting on most of his career with only two official photographers: Wolfgang Volz and Harry Shunk.

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Works:
Lisa mentions two works from the vast expanse of projects undertaken:

Wrapped Reichstag

The Reichstag is the seat of the German legislature and represents the new unified German state.

in its history has suffered 20 fires, bombs, wars and neglect.

Despite their reputation as artists Christo and Jean-Claude did not see the easy to carry out this project, here some numbers:

• took 24 years to get permission for authorization.
• 54 visits to Germany were made between 1976 and 1995.
• 352 MPs visited to support the project.
• 70 minutes were at the meeting in the German parliament, to give the final IF.
• On 25 February 1994 finally gave the desired permission to begin the work.
• 10 German companies involved in the manufacture of materials required.
• 90 climbers, 120 workers carried out the installation of structural steel in the towers.
• 100,000 square meters of polypropylene fabric and 15,600 meters
• string of the same material in blue, were required.
• 70 panels of fabric, covered the walls, towers and roof.
• On 24 June 1995 exhibition was opened to the public.
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• 2 weeks of exposure.

Fabric and Plastic . In the original script in English, Lisa tells Homer:

Lisa: (...) I have eleven wrapped the Reichstag in plastic.

The polypropylene fabric is the same as that used for the manufacture of plastic bags, So Lisa's statement is not entirely incorrect, and can be considered as plastic. But basically to refer to the works of this artist is often described as a fabric material.

Christo comments on the same web application in their works:

"From antiquity to the present, forming folds, pleats and fabric, the fabric is a significant part of paintings, frescoes, reliefs and sculptures made of wood, stone and bronze. The use of fabric on the Reichstag follows the classical tradition. Fabric, like clothing or skin, is fragile, it translates the unique quality of impermanence " , what is beginning and purpose.

found a clip on the process of wrapping the Reichstag , using the technique of Stop Motion.

The Umbrellas ( 1984 to 1991)

was a international project developed simultaneously U.S. and Japan.

plantation consisted of 3,100 giant umbrellas: 1,340 blue umbrellas over 12 kilometers from the village of Hitachi, Ibaraki Province, Japan and other 1,760 umbrellas, yellow, in the Californian town of Badger, USA .

The umbrellas are made of aluminum, six meters high, 8.7 meters in diameter and weighing 200 kilos.

The colors of the umbrellas were chosen in order to complement the landscape where they were installed:

• Yellow should note the amber grass hills of California, as a result of dryness of his ranches.

• Blue should enhance the lush foliage surrounding a river in Japan and express as Christ says, bustling setting of the archipelago.

umbrellas became into a major tourist attraction and was visited by more than 3 million people, some used them for picnics and others even used them as wedding altars. Umbrellas

killer Lisa Homer mentions that some of the umbrellas came off and killed people, and this is not entirely removed from reality, because if there were two deaths related to this exhibition:

• Lori Rae Keevil-Mathews , 33, traveled to California to visit the exhibition which was not even two weeks of opening to the public, when the wind ripped one of the umbrellas, which fell on the unfortunate woman and killed her. Although according to other versions of the umbrella is closed accidentally killing the woman. Crhisto to learn this command immediately dismantle the exhibition in the two countries. During the dismantling was the second death but in Japan.
  
• Masaki Nakamura, 51 years old, was operator of a crane that was used to make umbrellas, according to Japanese police, the crane's arm touched a high voltage cables and Nakamura was electrocuted on the spot.

These two deaths, are considered in many blogs as one of the deaths mástontas and absurd that is.

's conversation about Christo Lisa and Homer.