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Pail for Ganymede , 1959. Freestanding combine. Sheet metal and enamel on wood with crank, gears, sealing wax and tin of food, 48.3 x 12.7 x 14.6 cm. Robert Rauschenberg, New York. For the creation of this Combine , Rauschenberg explores new materials such as sheet metal and enamel on wood.
May 12, 2008 · Erased de Kooning Drawing. In the early 1950s, Rauschenberg explored the boundaries and the definition of art, following from the radical modernist precedent set by Marcel Duchamp's earlier Dada readymades. In this "drawing," he set out to discover if erasure, or the removal of a mark, constituted a work of art.
For Rauschenberg there was a natural progression from the Red Paintings to the Combines, as two-dimensional collage and eventually three-dimensional objects came to the fore. By summer 1954, Rauschenberg had made the first, fully realized Combine, eliminating all distinctions between painting and sculpture.
Dec 4, 2016 · Ace, 1962 by Robert Rauschenberg – oil, paper, cardboard, fabric, wood and metal on canvas – at Tate Modern. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen
Early Works, 1948-54. Beginning in 1948, Rauschenberg attended Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. His work at Black Mountain reveals many of the principal themes that recur throughout his oeuvre: sequences and progressions through time, grid formats, doubling and mirroring, and a sense of the human scale.
Dec 20, 2005 · The exhibition was organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rauschenberg's enthusiasm for found materials and his rejection of the angst of the Abstract Expressionists, whose work dominated the avant-garde in American art in the early part of the 1950s, led him to ...
1952, 1958–68. In Rauschenberg’s transfer drawings (1952, 1958–68), the artist recycles an American collective memory into alternative narratives that are disengaged from a linear history. These ethereal drawings reclaim scraps of printed media combined with hand-drawn and painted passages to make pictorial poems that subtly reflect the ...
