Robert Rauschenberg

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Robert Rauschenberg

• The Combine Painter

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Biography

• Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925
• imagined himself first as a minister and later as
  a pharmacist.
• It was in 1947, while in the U.S. Marines he
  discovered his aptitude for drawing and his
  interest in the artistic representation of
  everyday objects and people

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Bio continued

• After leaving the Marines he studied art in
  Paris.
• But soon became disenchanted with the European
  art scene.
• In less than a year he moved to North Carolina
  and studied under the country's most visionary
  artists and thinkers, such as Joseph Albers and
  Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College
• There Rauschenberg began what was to be an
  artistic revolution.

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And Again

• Soon he left for New York to make it as a
  painter.
• He rejected the angst and seriousness of the
  Abstract Expressionism which led him to search
  for a new way of painting.
• He found his signature by embracing materials
  traditionally outside of the artist's reach.
• In 1958, he had his first solo exhibition at the
  Leo Castelli Gallery, his work had moved from
  abstract painting to drawings like "Erased De
  Kooning" (1953) to what he termed "combines.
• Rauschenberg currently lives in Florida and
  continues to work, bringing his sense of
  excitement and challenge into a new century.
• All bio information from http//www.pbs.org/wnet/
  americanmasters/database/rauschenberg_r.html

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Monogram1955-9Freestanding combine42 x 64 x 64
1/2 in http//www.artchive.co
m/artchive/R/rauschenberg/monogram.jpg.html
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Bed1955Combine painting6'2" x 31 1/2" x 6
1/2" http//www.artchive.com/a
rtchive/R/rauschenberg/bed.jpg.html
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Canyon1959Combine on canvas81 3/4 x 70 x 24
in. http//www.artchive.com/artc
hive/R/rauschenberg/canyon.jpg.html
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Estate1963Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas96 x
70 in. http//www.artchive.com/art
chive/R/rauschenberg/estate.jpg.html
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• In 1998 The Guggenheim Museum put on its largest
  exhibition ever with four hundred works by
  Rauschenberg, showcasing the breadth and beauty
  of his work, and its influence over the second
  half of the century.