Here's to Rauschenberg.
In honor of one of America's most influential artists, CreateHere would like to recognize the life of Robert Rauschenberg, who passed away Monday evening at the age of 82.
Born in 1925, Rauschenberg is widely recognized for pushing the boundaries of American art throughout his career, but especially during the 1950s following the movements of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. His innovative "Combine Paintings" incorporated painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and papermaking. Rauschenberg was interested in taking found objects from the streets of New York City and re-assembling them to create new, thought provoking works of art. He professed, "I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world." Thus, his most influential work questioned the previously established notion of 'painting' and redefined it as an interdisciplinary practice, where the use of multimedia, improvisation, and counter-intuition weighed heavily.
Read a little more about the life of Robert Rauschenberg.