Robert Rauschenberg, Art Institute of Chicago: Rauschenberg, Dec 3, 1977; January 15
Robert Rauschenberg
1925-2008
Date
1976
Medium Specific
Lithograph poster
Publisher
Telamon Editions, Ltd.
Classification
Poster
Dimensions
45 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (115.6 x 74.9 cm)
Accession Number
2017.10.12.103
Memo / Artist Statement
Robert Rauschenberg worked in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance, over the span of six decades. He emerged on the American art scene at the time that Abstract Expressionism was dominant, and through the course of his practice he challenged the gestural abstract painting and the model of the heroic, self-expressive artist championed by that movement.
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Biography
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. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.
Rauschenberg received numerous awards during his nearly 60-year artistic career. Among the most prominent were the International Grand Prize in Painting at the 32nd Venice Biennale in 1964 and the National Medal of Arts in 1993. Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida, until his death on May 12, 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg received numerous awards during his nearly 60-year artistic career. Among the most prominent were the International Grand Prize in Painting at the 32nd Venice Biennale in 1964 and the National Medal of Arts in 1993. Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida, until his death on May 12, 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg
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