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Huh?
Just to let you know, I love Rubens. I love Rauschenberg even more.
After all, I'm a modern fellow, aren't I? Moreover, the invention of the photographic camera occurred in-between their lifetimes.
Rauschenberg used silk screening in many works. Richard Prince upon occasion employs a jet ink printer. It doesn't matter if the result is successful as fine art. Both have their fair share of misses, by the way. Art, as indefinable, is like that. One has to endure many misses before hitting that elusive mark. And it's exceedingly difficult to know when and if one even hits it. Comic books are altogether a more paint-by-numbers affair.
Crazy you said Rubens because one of the paintings I lost in a fire had Rubens' The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau amid abstract painterliness and some hard-edge all juxtaposed with Native American art. It was called Red Cloud, after the Sioux chief.
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