Nam June Paik, the father of modern video art has died. He was 74 and died in his home in Miami, Florida.

I was lucky enough to see one of his exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art, back in 1995.

"...What other artists were doing or would do to extend the collage tradition into three dimensions was called assemblage. But Rauschenberg likes the term Combine, which he himself coined...

Combines all thrown together, the majority being more-or-less flat, the tiniest of squints will reveal that what you are really looking at is outsized Late Cubism. After all, assemblage is an offshoot of collage

Rauschenberg's Combines and silk-screen paintings are as faceted as classic Cubism, presenting multiple points of views -- not of one still-life, but of life itself, through the use of photos, words, objects of differing scales and degrees of detail. There is no bowl of apples, no face, no cafe wine bottle, no pipe you need to decipher. It is perception itself (and its intermediaries) you need to read."

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I think is very interesting and I have to agree.