Friday, 6 April 2012

Robert Rauschenberg


Another Artist part of the 1950s New York School of Artists was Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg was born in Texas and attended  Kansas City Art Institute and then the Academie Julien in Paris. 
Rauschenberg is known for his mixed media pieces, known as Combines:
A Combine painting is an artwork that incorporate various objects into a painted canvas surface, creating  a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture. Items attached to paintings might include photographic  images, clothing, newspaper clippings, emphera, or  any number of three-dimensional objects. 
Rauschenberg collected things to use in his artwork from the streets of New York City. He said himself that he...
 "wanted something other than what I could make myself and I wanted to use the surprise and the  collectiveness and generosity of finding surprises. And if  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 became a new thing."



[Information : Wikipedia - 'Robert Rauschenberg' & Combines']


Estate - 1963

Canyon, 1959


Untitled, 1954


Untitled, 1954
       

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