Robert Rauschenberg- a famous painter and graphic artist

Robert Rauschenberg, a legendary painter from New York whose initial works anticipated during the movement of pop art.  Rauschenberg became famous for his legendary work “Combines” in the mid 1950s. During the exhibition, the artist used non-traditional objects and materials, and it was such an innovative artistic composition during those years. The artist was not a famous painter but also a great sculptor. His amazing project “Combines” was the great combination of both sculpture and paintings (Like Thomas Kinkade New York painting). However, the artist had also worked as printmaker, photographer, performance and papermaker. Robert Rauschenberg got his achievement award from the National Medal of Arts during 1993. 

The full name of Rauschenberg is Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, and he was born in Texas. He is the son of Ernest R. Rauschenberg and Dora Carolina. His mother was “Anglo-Saxon” descent and his father was “German ancestry”. Rauschenberg’s parents used to be fundamentalist Christians. 

Rauschenberg completed his pre-college from the Academia Julian and Kansas City Art Institute in France. He went to Black Mountain College in 1948 to complete the graduation. Josef Albers, who was the mentor of Rauschenberg when he studied in Black Mountain College and Josef, was also the founder of Bauhaus.  Josef tried to influence Rauschenberg not to work on any uninfluenced experimentation during the early period of his art college. Rauschenberg told about the Josef as the main man to do him to reverse the entire concept.  Rauschenberg also studied with Morris Kantor and Vaclav Vytlacil when he was in “Art Students League” in New York.  At times, Rauschenberg’s attitude used to signify as Neo Dadaist, a unique label that he used to share with another painter named “Jasper Johns”. Once the artist said that, he preferred working in a time between the life and art. It does suggest his thinking towards the daily life objects and art objects. Such approach was also initiated by Dada, Fountain, and Marcel Duchamp. Rauschenberg decided to reverse such conception of Championing art in 1961. He wanted to make a significant turnover over the meaning of creator in Neutral art. Rauschenberg once invited to get participated in “Galerie Iris Clert” where all the artists had to make and show a special portrait of gallery owner. Rauschenberg made a great announcement at UN to open a special Interchange program called as “ROCI- Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange”. This program was held with a sever year schedule, and visit almost ten countries promoting the significance of world peace and harmony.

You can watch a great interview of Robert Rauschenberg here in this Video.