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Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) was active/lived in New York, Florida.  Robert Rauschenberg is known for Assemblage, non objective painting, set design.

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Born with the name Milton Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg became one of the major artists of his generation and is credited along with Jasper Johns of breaking the stronghold of Abstract Expressionism*.

Rauschenberg was known for assemblage*, conceptualist methods, printmaking, and willingness to experiment with non-artistic materials--all innovations that anticipated later movements such as Pop Art*, Conceptualism*, and Minimalism*.

In May, 1999, ARTNews magazine featured him as one of the top twenty-five influential western artists, stating: "His irreverent notions of what an artwork could be gained him the status of an enfant terrible. . .Rauschenberg pushed the viewer to accept the unexpected."

He has said that he believes painting should relate to both life and art and that he wants is artwork to be the intermediary between the two.

He received much formal art education beginning with the Kansas City Art Institute in 194   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 19806 characters.]  Artist bio

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Robert Rauschenberg available:    Frank Stella,  Roy Lichtenstein,  Jim Dine,  Robert Burns Motherwell,  Sam Lewis Francis,  James Rosenquist,  Tom Wesselmann,  Helen Frankenthaler,  Ed Ruscha,  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson,  Robert E Indiana,  Jasper Johns,  Claes Thure Oldenburg,  Andy Warhol,  Larry Rivers,  Alex Katz,  David Hockney,  Alexander (Sandy) Calder,  Willem de Kooning,  Ellsworth Kelly,  Josef Albers,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Wayne Thiebaud,  Keith Haring



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Robert Rauschenberg


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
  • Mexico and/or Central America
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Black Mountain College, North Carolina, Student
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • National Medal of Arts
  • Walter Gutman Foundation Grant
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • NASA Art Collection: Space Exploration
  • UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
  • Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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