Monday, November 9, 2015

About Robert Rauschenberg

One of the hallmarks of latest Craft, installation with artists adore Picasso, was the incorporation of items from absolute lifetime into Craft. Robert Rauschenberg was one of the aboriginal artists, next in the tradition of Picasso, to accept items and images from the talk sorrounding him and include them into his Craft.


Origins


Robert Rauschenberg was born in 1925 in Harbour Arthur, Texas. He grew up wanting to be a minister, however deserted the concept after joining the Marines, where he discovered his delineation aptitude.


Black Mountain College


After Rauschenberg left the Marines, he became an Craft Undergraduate at the Nigrescent Mountain College in North Carolina. Nigrescent Eminence School was a centre or artistic exploration and fanatic advanced ideas, formed and taught by artists like John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willen de Kooning and Franz Kline.


New York City


Feeling isolated in the country setting of Black Mountain College, Rauschenberg decided to leave the school and try his luck as an artist in New York City. There, among the city's frenetic pace and creative energy, Rauschenberg found his style as a painter.


Rejection of Ab Ex


Rauschenberg did not believe in the ethos of abstract expressionism, which was the prevalent style of the time; he felt that abstract expressionism took itself too seriously.


These works appeared to be quite abstract, but the carefully selected details of connected imagery told a narrative about modern society.




Combines

Rauschenberg's legendary works--what he called "combines"--were three-dimensional collages made from found objects. The idea behind the "combines" is both the process of finding and selecting the objects and images, and also what they are meant to say about our culture.

Pop Art

As Pop Art developed through the 1960s, Rauschenberg collaged and screenprinted pop culture images, and applied paint and/or ink over the top.