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Bill de Kooning had the humility to recognize that the greatest thingwe can do is provide the best possible foundation for those who e after us. We mustwele our own erasure. So Iamp。 Itwas Jasper Johns who recognized that in the process of erasing de Kooningamp。Erased de Kooning by Bob Rauschenberg.amp。t want to just give him arandom drawing. He wanted it to be something really great, something that he really he finally settled on a drawing that was very, very hard to erase. It was prised oflayers of lead and charcoal. And he generously gave it to Bob Rauschenberg. According to Bob,it took nearly two months to erase the drawing. But it was Jasper Johns who came along andframed it and he gave that drawing a title, called amp。t want to just erase his own art, he wanted to erase the art of hishero. So de Kooning obliged but he took his time, and he tortured the young artist as hewandered around his studio in search of the perfect drawing. He didnamp。t enough for Bob Rauschenberg, becauseBob Rauschenberg didnamp。s see, Bill de Kooning, he was a dumb guy, he knew exactly what Rauschenberg was up to,because Rauschenberg had recently been experimenting with his own art. He had been creatingthese drawings and then erasing them. But that wasnamp。t just visiting. Hewas visiting Bill de Kooning to ask for something. He wanted one of Bill de Kooningamp。s about a guynamed Bob Rauschenberg. He was a young artist, and he went to go visit his idol. You know, hereally loved this guy and he was totally terrified