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9 feb 2024 · Robert Rauschenberg, nato Milton Ernest Rauschenberg il 22 ottobre 1925 a Port Arthur, in Texas, è stato un pittore, scultore e fotografo statunitense, noto per le sue innovazioni nel campo della pittura e per la creazione di opere che sfidano le tradizionali categorie artistiche.
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Early Mature Period
- Late Mature Period
- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in the small refinery town of Port Arthur, Texas. His father, Ernest, was a strict and serious man who worked for the Gulf State Utilities power company. His mother, Dora, was a devout Christian and a frugal woman. She made the family's clothes from scraps, a practice that embarrassed her son,...
Following his parents' wishes, Rauschenberg attended the University of Texas in Austin to study pharmacology, but was expelled in his freshman year after refusing to dissect a frog. The draft letter that arrived in 1943 saved him from breaking the news to his parents. Refusing to kill on the battlefield, he was assigned as a medical technician in t...
On Rauschenberg's return to New York from Black Mountain in fall 1952, Weil filed for divorce and brought Christopher to live with her parents. Rauschenberg left for Europe and North Africa to travel with Cy Twombly - a fellow student in the Art Students League and later an important Conceptual artist, with whom he was also romantically involved at...
In keeping with his interest in current events and culture, Rauschenberg began to integrate images of space flight into his work in the 1960s. A Modern Inferno (1965), an image created for Life Magazine in celebration of Dante's seven-hundredth birthday, portrays Dante as an astronaut. In the series Stoned Moon (1969-70), Rauschenberg incorporated ...
In 1990, the Whitney Museum of American Art gave Rauschenberg a retrospective, accompanied by a smaller show at the Corcoran Gallery of his earlier work from the 1950s. The exhibitions cemented his status as one of the giants of the art world while emphasizing the importance of his early work in the development of modern American art. Rauschenberg ...
Rauschenberg's work of the 1950s and 1960s influenced the young artists who developed later modern movements. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein traced their inspiration for Pop art to Rauschenberg's collages of appropriated media images, and his experiments in silkscreen printing. The foundation for Conceptual art in large measure lies in Rauschenbe...
- American
- October 22, 1925
- Port Arthur, Texas
- May 12, 2008
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.
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 ...
A distanza di più di 50 anni, il film Americans in Venice: Robert Rauschenberg Rewrites the Rules prova a ricostruire la vicenda. A firmarlo è il produttore e regista Amei Wallach che, attraverso interviste, filmati e immagini d’archivio, ha cercato di gettare nuova luce sulla vittoria di Rauschenberg.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - Biografia. Robert Rauschenberg nasce nel 1925 a Port Arthur, in Texas. Nel 1942 Rauschenberg si iscrive a Farmacia, poi si arruola nei Marines. Tra il 1947 e il 1948 segue alcuni corsi al Kansas City Art Institute. Nel 1948 si trasferisce a Parigi, dove frequenta l'Académie Julian e incontra Susan Weil, che diventerà sua ...
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (American, Port Arthur, Texas 1925–2008 Captiva Island, Florida) Date: 1959 Medium: Combine painting: oil, paper, fabric, wood, metal, sandpaper, tape, printed paper, printed reproductions, handheld bellows, and found painting, on two canvases, with ladder
