RAUSCHENBERG, JOHNS & TWOMBLY : THE OTHER INFLUENCES WE STILL SEE TODAY

In their different yet related ways, these artists set an agenda for modern art that is a long way from being exhausted. Rauschenberg anticipated the appetite for diverse media that is so basic to art today. Photography, performance, the ephemeral and the serendipitous make his one of the most open and adventurous achievements in art, and still, even if they don't know it, the best young artists continue his experiment. At the same time, anyone who isolates things, who conceptualises the everyday object is indebted to Johns. As for Twombly, his work is still at the forefront of new art. He has kept alive the reach and freedom of abstract painting into this century.

-The Guardian
April 23 2009