Born: October 22, 1925
Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who became prominent int he 1950 transition from Abstract impressionism to Pop Art. His approach to his early work in particular could be described as Neo Dada.
Robert Rauschenberg described his work as wanting it to be in the gap between art and life suggesting he questioned the distinction between art objects and everyday objects, similar to Marcel Duchamp , with his works such as 'Fountain'.
In 1962 Rauschenberg began to incorporate found imagery as well as found objects into his work. He transferred photographs onto his canvas via silkscreen printing. This allowed him to address and experiment with the reproducibility of imagery and the way this process flattened the image.
He was cited as an important for-runner of American Pop Art.
Images:
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1815&page=1
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I love rauschenberg!
ReplyDeletei think the idea of collage with printing methods rather than preprinted material is genius!
not suggesting we do it or anything but it has interesting connotations!
Jo:)