Each individual two-dimensional medium has an extensive range of uses. Taken together their breadth is wide and the visual, textural and emotional effects they give to works of art are extremely varied as you can see in the many examples used throughout this module. Most of us have had some exposure to drawing and painting, maybe even printmaking and collage. They are tools artists use to express themselves, their thoughts and ideas.

View the video of artist Robert Rauschenberg discussing his work, Erased de Kooning Drawing. In the course feed, write down your thoughts about how it reflects on the technical issues of drawing and the larger aesthetic issues of appropriation and destruction as part of a creative process.