Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was primarily a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.
Background
- Born in
- Port Arthur
- Educated at
- Art Students League of New YorkBlack Mountain CollegeKansas City Art InstituteUniversity of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- 🏆 National Medal of Arts
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"I don't feel any direct relationship between what I do and existing art. Though there is unavoidable progression: the things all paintings have in common are paint, and color, and some means of applic…"
"It is completely irrelevant that I am making them. 'Today' is their creator."
"I like the aliveness of it – that awful feeling of being on the spot. I must assume the responsibility for that moment, for those actions that happen at that particular time. I don't find theater that…"
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Timeline
1925
Born
Birth2008
Died
Death
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