Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg is an American Painter and Sculptor , who is influenced by popular culture.  Rauschenberg also works in; photography, printmaking, paper making, and performance. He was known sometimes for "Neo Dadaist" which is something he shared with Jasper Johns.

"Rauschenberg's paintings were beginning to incorporate not only found objects but found images aswell - photographs transferred to the canvas by means of the silkscreen process.

Previously used only in commercial applications , silkscreen allowed Rauschenberg to address the multiple reproducibility of images , and the consequent flattening of experience that implies."



COMBINES:


"Rauschenberg picked up trash and found objects that  interested him of New York City and brought them back to his studio where they could become interrogated into his work."

He claimed he "wanted something other than what I could make myself and I wanted to use the surprise and the collectiveness and the generosity of finding surprised. And it wasn't a surprise at first, by the time I got through with it, it was. So the object itself was changed by its context and therefore it became anew thing.

Rauschenberg's comment concerning the gap between art and life can be seen as a statement which provides the departure point for all understanding of his contributions as an artist. "

Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963. Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas. Gift of Susan Morse Hilles, 1964.30.

Robert Rauschenberg ,Untitled, ca. 1954, Freestanding combine: oil, pencil, crayon, paper, canvas, fabric, newspaper, photographs, wood, glass, mirror, tin, cork and found painting with pair of painted leather shoes, dried grass, and Dominique hen mounted on wood structure on five casters; 86 1/2 x 37 x 26 1/4 in. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection