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Praemium Imperiale (1998) Milton Ernest " Robert " Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) 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 ...
1959. Combine: oil, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed paper, printed reproductions, photograph, wood, paint tube, and mirror on canvas with oil on taxidermied golden eagle, string, and pillow. 81 3/4 x 70 x 24 inches (207.6 x 177.8 x 61 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the family of Ileana Sonnabend.
Robert Rauschenberg worked in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance, over the span of six decades. He emerged on the American art scene at the time that Abstract Expressionism was dominant, and through the course of his practice he challenged the gestural abstract painting and the model of ...
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From Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon (1959), Combine: oil, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed paper, printed …
Robert Rauschenberg and Elizabeth Schmitt Jennerjahn. Gelatin silver print, 6¼ x 9⅛" (15.9 x 23.3 cm). Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer Fig. 6. Robert Rauschenberg. Rome Wall (III). 1953. Gelatin silver print, 15 x 15" (38.1 x 38.1 cm). Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Dec 20, 2005 · Exhibition Overview. This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the highly inventive body of work that Robert Rauschenberg (American, b. 1925) terms "combines." Among the sixty-seven works on view are several that have never before been shown publicly, as well as some of the artist's best-known objects, such as Canyon and Monogram.
Combines (1954–64) “Combine” is a term Rauschenberg invented to describe a series of works that combine aspects of painting and sculpture. Virtually eliminating all distinctions between these artistic categories, the Combines either hang on the wall or are freestanding. With the Combine series, Rauschenberg endowed new significance to ...
