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Milton Ernest " Robert " Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.
Learn about Robert Rauschenberg, an American painter and graphic artist who challenged the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Explore his diverse mediums, influences, awards, and exhibitions at MoMA.
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation was founded by the artist in 1990, and transitioned to its current mission in 2012 – to foster the artistic and philanthropic legacy of Robert Rauschenberg through scholarship, grants, and a residency program.
Learn about Robert Rauschenberg, an American painter and graphic artist who pioneered Pop art and Neo-Dadaism. Explore his life, style, influences, and achievements, from his early white and black paintings to his silk-screen and printmaking works.
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Robert Rauschenberg was born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in the small refinery town of Port Arthur, Texas. His father, Ernest, was a strict and serious man who worked for the Gulf State Utilities power company. His mother, Dora, was a devout Christian and a frugal woman. She made the family's clothes from scraps, a practice that embarrassed her son,...
Following his parents' wishes, Rauschenberg attended the University of Texas in Austin to study pharmacology, but was expelled in his freshman year after refusing to dissect a frog. The draft letter that arrived in 1943 saved him from breaking the news to his parents. Refusing to kill on the battlefield, he was assigned as a medical technician in t...
On Rauschenberg's return to New York from Black Mountain in fall 1952, Weil filed for divorce and brought Christopher to live with her parents. Rauschenberg left for Europe and North Africa to travel with Cy Twombly - a fellow student in the Art Students League and later an important Conceptual artist, with whom he was also romantically involved at...
In keeping with his interest in current events and culture, Rauschenberg began to integrate images of space flight into his work in the 1960s. A Modern Inferno (1965), an image created for Life Magazine in celebration of Dante's seven-hundredth birthday, portrays Dante as an astronaut. In the series Stoned Moon (1969-70), Rauschenberg incorporated ...
In 1990, the Whitney Museum of American Art gave Rauschenberg a retrospective, accompanied by a smaller show at the Corcoran Gallery of his earlier work from the 1950s. The exhibitions cemented his status as one of the giants of the art world while emphasizing the importance of his early work in the development of modern American art. Rauschenberg ...
Rauschenberg's work of the 1950s and 1960s influenced the young artists who developed later modern movements. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein traced their inspiration for Pop art to Rauschenberg's collages of appropriated media images, and his experiments in silkscreen printing. The foundation for Conceptual art in large measure lies in Rauschenbe...
Learn about Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most influential American artists who blended materials and methods to create experimental artworks. Explore his Neo-Dada and performance art, his White Paintings, his Erased de Kooning Drawing, and more.
- American
- October 22, 1925
- Port Arthur, Texas
- May 12, 2008
May 12, 2008 · Learn about Rauschenberg's life, works, and influences in the Neo-Dada and Pop Art movements. Explore his "Combines" of non-traditional materials, his collaborations with Johns and Twombly, and his awards and legacy.
Learn about Robert Rauschenberg, a pioneer of Pop art and multimedia art, who incorporated everyday objects and photography in his Combines. Explore his biography, artworks, awards and related terms on Tate's website.
