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  American Masters . Robert Rauschenberg | PBS
Rauschenberg's enthusiasm for popular culture and his rejection of the angst and seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists led him to search for a new way of painting.
One of Rauschenberg's first and most famous combines was entitled "Monogram" (1959) and consisted of an unlikely set of materials: a stuffed angora goat, a tire, a police barrier, the heel of a shoe, a tennis ball, and paint.
Rauschenberg lives in Florida and continues to work, bringing his sense of excitement and challenge into a new century.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/rauschenberg_r.html   (598 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg 1967–1978
Rauschenberg and Cage developed a relationship of reciprocal inspiration – a connection that provided both the artist and the composer with the daring that was required in the creation of their most innovative works.
Rauschenberg has suggested that his choice of cardboard as a new material was the result of ‘a desire … to work in a material of waste and softness.
For Rauschenberg, the striking contrast between the sensuous colour of the saris and the aromatic and earthy aesthetic of the rag-mud encapsulated the manifest social and cultural contrasts of India.
www.nga.gov.au /Rauschenberg   (3808 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg - MSN Encarta
B orn in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925, Robert Rauschenberg imagined himself first as a minister and later as a pharmacist.
Robert Rauschenberg, born in 1925, American painter, who played an important role in the transition from abstract expressionism to pop art.
After 1962, Rauschenberg experimented with silk-screen prints—first in fl and white, later in color—in which repetition of imagery played a strong role.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570620/Robert_Rauschenberg.html   (309 words)

  
 AE160D Unit 7: Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was born in 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas.
Rauschenberg, who had numerous pets as a child, was expelled from the University of Texas for refusing to dissect a live frog.
It is a painting that lies on the floor with a stuffed Angora goat standing on it with an old rubber tire around its belly and paint applied to the face of goat and the base in the style of the Abstract Expressionists.
arted.osu.edu /160/07_Rauschenberg.php   (909 words)

  
 robert rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925, was schooled at a number of institutions including: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas; Academy Julian, Paris, France; Black Mountain College, North Carolina; The Art Student's League, New York.
Robert Rauschenberg's work is about the pursuit of integration, as he gathers together various facets of life that are generally disregarded, and "glues" them together piece by piece.
Robert Rauschenberg's artwork in on display in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Tate Gallery, London, England.
www.genesisgallery.com /html/bios/126.html   (241 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg
Artist Robert Rauschenberg is known for his constructed works of art from the discards of urban civilization.
According to Rauschenberg, the seemingly unrelated objects arranged in such a chaotic manner simply stood for the inexhaustible array of visual signs surrounding society in the age of consumer culture and mass media.
Rauschenberg gained recognition in the 1950s and was often associated with a movement called Neo-Dada.
www.georgetowncollege.edu /art/jacobs/artwork/robert_rauschenberg.htm   (194 words)

  
 SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Robert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg himself considers the works "priceless icons of my history, works that celebrate the wonder and joy that I feel must be an important ingredient in the creativity and life of any artist."
Reflective of the full span of Rauschenberg's career, the exhibition will feature several seminal works that are among the best known of the artist's oeuvre and that have been enormously influential in the cultural expression of the past forty years.
Rauschenberg, born in 1925, has created art in perhaps a greater range of media, materials, and techniques than any other contemporary artist.
www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/99_exhib_rauschenberg.html   (320 words)

  
  SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Robert Rauschenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rauschenberg himself considers the works "priceless icons of my history, works that celebrate the wonder and joy that I feel must be an important ingredient in the creativity and life of any artist."
Reflective of the full span of Rauschenberg's career, the exhibition will feature several seminal works that are among the best known of the artist's oeuvre and that have been enormously influential in the cultural expression of the past forty years.
Rauschenberg, born in 1925, has created art in perhaps a greater range of media, materials, and techniques than any other contemporary artist.
www.sfmoma.com /exhibitions/exhib_detail/99_exhib_rauschenberg.html   (320 words)

  
 TATEetc. Vincent Katz on Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was fascinated by Willem de Kooning, and in 1953 asked the artist if he could erase one of his drawings as an act of art.
Rauschenberg's teacher at Black Mountain, Josef Albers, who he accused of "abuse" because of his harsh manner in refusing to brook missed or misconstrued assignments, taught that art came not from self-expression, but from an understanding of materials and colour weights.
Rauschenberg's moves in white are part of the grand gesture that his early work strove for and often achieved.
www.tate.org.uk /tateetc/issue8/erasuregenteel.htm   (1396 words)

  
 Critique of Robert Rauschenberg's Retrospective @ the Gugenheim By: Tarek Fahmy
Critique of Robert Rauschenberg's Retrospective @ the Gugenheim By: Tarek Fahmy
Robert Rauschenberg is the painter of modern life.
Robert Rauschenberg is a very sensitive and observant man. I hardly knew of him and his work before I saw his retrospective at the Gugenheim, NY His work fills me with strong feelings because of its basic cultural truths and strong visual and emotional presence.
www.conceptualdesign.net /museum_beta/pages_inside/pages_essays/rauschenberg_1.html   (1292 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Robert Rauschenberg: Livres en anglais: Sam Hunter,Hunter,Laura Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rauschenberg has been so prolific that few critics have a handle on his vast output or the sensibility and ideas behind it.
Enter intrepid art historian Mattison, who observes Rauschenberg hard at work in his enormous, immaculate, high-tech Florida studio, where this master of intuition and spontaneity, who is actually as organized and efficient as an emergency room physician, works with a crew of energetic assistants at a breathless pace.
Mattison also analyzes Rauschenberg's 20-year collaboration with choreographer Trisha Brown, parses Rauschenberg's attunement to urban life and fascination with space exploration, ponders the aesthetic implications of the artist's dyslexia, and chronicles Rauschenberg's wildly ambitious and highly controversial project entailing travel to and the making and exhibiting of art in 11 countries.
www.amazon.fr /Robert-Rauschenberg-Sam-Hunter/dp/0847821838   (541 words)

  
 Artist Profile: Robert Rauschenberg, Contemporary Artist
Robert Rauschenberg is an American artist, born in Texas in 1925.
Rauschenberg's heritage is part Native American, and sometimes I've wondered if this plays a part in his choice of images, his iconography, or the poetic and transcendent quality of his work.
Rauschenberg is one of the most well-known artists in the world, and has been very successful.
www.ndoylefineart.com /rauschenberg.html   (1396 words)

  
 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: RECENT WORK
Robert Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas on October 22, 1925.
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, started in 1990, also is a non-profit entity devoted to projects that will increase public awareness about subjects of vital interest to the artist.
Another Robert Rauschenberg artwork, for a print/poster edition to promote global awareness of the United Nations Conference on World Population and Development, the "City Summit", which was set for Cairo in the fall of 1994, was unveiled at the United Nations in New York on September 20, 1993.
www.i2art.com /edisongallery/rauschenberg/biography.htm   (1074 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
Rauschenberg's lifelong commitment to collaboration with performers, printmakers, engineers, writers, artists, and artisans from around the world is a further manifestation of his expansive artistic philosophy.
Rauschenberg was sustained through these years by an intellectual dialogue with Cage and Cunningham, as well as with the artist Jasper Johns, who shared his interest in deriving art from the commonplace.
Rauschenberg's early interest in photography was renewed in 1979 with his first collaboration with the Trisha Brown Company.
www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/rauschenberg/rauschenberg.html   (2782 words)

  
 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, COMBINES
A child of Dada, Rauschenberg was influenced by the assemblages of Kurt Schwitters, whose example led him to suggest that art and life are but one.
Nevertheless, as Barbara Rose has pointed out, Rauschenberg’s art drew its inspiration from the America of that era, and the artist was reacting against Abstract Expressionism and its goal of the absolute when he incorporated images from magazines or non-artistic materials into his works.
Rauschenberg, who has always brought out the temperal in his work, wanted time to be a feature of listening, just as it is with looking.
www.centrepompidou.fr /education/ressources/ENS-Rauschenberg-EN/ENS-rauschenberg-EN.htm   (5314 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg's art challenged assumptions - USATODAY.com
American master Robert Rauschenberg was one of those rare artists who changed the language of art — indeed, changed the definition of what is art.
Rauschenberg died Monday of heart failure at his Florida home; he was 82 and had used a wheelchair since a series of strokes in 2002 and 2003.
Rauschenberg called them "combines" and compared his labeling dilemma to that of another American artist, Alexander Calder, who invented the word "mobiles" to describe his own dangling artwork.
www.usatoday.com /life/lifestyle/2008-05-13-rauschenberg-obit_N.htm?csp=34   (707 words)

  
 www.kansascity.com | 05/13/2008 | Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla. at 82
Rauschenberg died Monday of heart failure at 82, it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York.
Rosenthal said she believed Rauschenberg would be best remembered for his series of all-white, all-fl and all-red paintings, as well as the combines.
Rauschenberg's more than 50 years in art produced such a varied and prolific collection that it consumed both uptown and downtown locations during a 1998 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
www.kansascity.com /440/story/617553.html   (1063 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg
Born in Texas in 1925 at Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg wanted to be a minister but gave it up because the church prohibited dancing and he loved to dance.
Called "combines" by Rauschenberg (maybe to denote the combination of two- and three-dimensional space, of art and life, of many media), these works covered found objects like a bed or a stuffed chicken with befuddingly beautiful passages of paint.
By the '70s, Rauschenberg began his now-signature procedure of building visual fields from collisions of appropriated media images: snippets from Esquire, Newsweek, popular dailies, trashy pulp silk-screened and hand-altered to blend and battle on fabric, canvas, metal, glass, you name it.
www.famoustexans.com /rauschenberg.htm   (915 words)

  
 Microcinema DVDs - Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg
Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg is the first film to be released in a series that will bring to life a historic moment in contemporary art history.
Initially, Rauschenberg asked for: "Light-sensitive chemical which changes color; temperature and pressure sensitive colors; live fabrics; nowhere sound; use of time delay in general; printing on tape manually without using tape recorders; infrared TV...forms of rebroadcast, snooperscopes, TV sets, Eidophor." It was the infrared television that became a central element in Rauschenberg's piece.
Rauschenberg had adopted one of the oldest forms of performance that everyone recognizes, a tennis match, and made it into dance.
www.microcinemadvd.com /product/DVD/596/Open_Score_by_Robert_Rauschenberg.html   (1177 words)

  
 wcco.com - Artist Robert Rauschenberg Dead At 82
Rauschenberg didn't give a fig for consistency, or curating his reputation; his taste was always facile, omnivorous, and hit-or-miss, yet he had a bigness of soul and a richness of temperament that recalled Walt Whitman."
Rauschenberg first paintings in the early 1950s comprised a series of all-white and all-fl surfaces under laid with wrinkled newspaper.
One of Rauschenberg's first and most famous combines was entitled "Monogram," a 1959 work consisting of a stuffed angora goat, a tire, a police barrier, the heel of a shoe, a tennis ball, and paint.
wcco.com /national/Robert.Rauschenberg.Artist.2.722699.html   (908 words)

  
 Artists Past & Present: Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1925.
Rauschenberg was keenly interested in the iconography of American popular culture.
Rauschenberg’s fascination with popular imagery and his anything goes aesthetic indisputably influenced Pop Art, which would mimic the look of popular culture as opposed to Rauschenberg’s more subjective renderings.
edu.warhol.org /app_rauschenberg.html   (353 words)

  
 Potsdamer Platz: Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was one of the most enthusiastic witnesses to Tinguely's exploding art machine in 1960, in the garden of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
These are the fundaments of Rauschenberg's works which refer back to his role models from the start of the century, Duchamp and Schwitters.
Rauschenberg took a step into artistic independence in 1951 with his "White Painting", seven monochrome white panels which he exhibited at his first solo exhibition in the Betty Parson Gallery, New York.
www.collection.daimlerchrysler.com /sculpt/potsdamerplatz/skulpt_rauschenberg_detail_e.htm   (752 words)

  
 The Robert Rauschenberg Reunion Tour - New York Times
Rauschenberg, an inveterate night owl, to start working at this hour on projects like the remade sculpture, or the assemblages of photographs and painting that are his focus these days.
Rauschenberg defied the dominant aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism and incorporated everything from a stuffed goat to newspaper clippings and fabric swatches into his work.
Rauschenberg remains one of the titans of the American art world, alongside a few others in his generation, like Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly.
www.nytimes.com /2005/12/18/arts/design/18vogel.html?ex=1292562000&en=d90e4960c8cbdf70&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (737 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg: Rauschenberg, Prints, Limited Edition Prints, Lithographs and Sculptures - Gemini G.E.L.
Robert Rauschenberg was born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas.
Photographs taken by Rauschenberg on his ROCI Tibet expedition were transferred to wall reliefs and freestanding sculpture for the Tibetan Keys and Locks series.
Robert Rauschenberg’s work is housed in virtually every important international collection of contemporary art.
www.geminigel.com /robert_rauschenberg_prints.html   (640 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg did not, and his reputation has suffered because he failed to "curate" his inspired folly into the historical dialogue.
Rauschenberg's careless plenitude was distrusted as ambition, his generosity earned him not the affection of others, but inclusion in their self-hate.
Rauschenberg carried the day when fashion forced the art community to go along with him - until that moment in 1964 when he won the grand prize at the Venice Biennale.
www.artchive.com /artchive/R/rauschenbergbio.html   (1940 words)

  
 Robert Rauschenberg - Information File - FCPL
Milton Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas on October 22, 1925.
Rauschenberg credits Albers as being the most important teacher to his development providing him with a sense of discipline even though Albers intensely disliked Rauschenberg’s work.
Around 1950, Rauschenberg began his “all white” phase which was followed by his “all fl” phase.
www.fairfaxcounty.gov /library/information/people/artists/robertrauschenberg.htm   (306 words)

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