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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG IS BOTH a protean artist and cultural symbol. He is enormously prolific and talented. But the successes and failures of his career are bound up with his character, which scripted, certain accomplishments and blocked many others. The diversity of materials, styles, and images in his career is surely one of the most prodigious ...
Robert Rauschenberg, Signs. Robert Rauschenberg, Signs, 1970, screenprint, 109.22 x 86.36 cm (MoMA) In 1970, Newsweek magazine commissioned and ultimately rejected a cover image from Robert Rauschenberg. The artist was asked to create an image that commemorated the 1960s, a tumultuous decade defined by violence and by protests over the.
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 ...
In expanding upon the artist’s legacy, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation celebrates new and even untested ways of thinking and acting. The Foundation supports research, institutions, and artists that embody the same collaborative, inclusive, and multidisciplinary approach that Rauschenberg exemplified in both his art and philanthropic endeavors.
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.
Canyon belongs to a group of artworks called “Combines,” a term unique to this artist who attached extraneous materials and objects to canvases in the years between 1954 and 1965. What makes Rauschenberg so significant for this period—the postwar years—is how he challenged conventional ways of thinking about advanced modern art ...
The man with two souls Robert Rauschenberg • 1950 Susan–Central Park N.Y.C. (III) Robert Rauschenberg • 1951 Should Love Come First Robert Rauschenberg • 1951
