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Robert Rauschenberg: One Of The Best American Collage Artists In The World
Robert Rauschenberg was one of the many American collage artists who became prominent during the fifties crossover right from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He is known for his “Combines”, in which non-traditional items and objects were being employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with taking pictures, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. His career tells much more about the New York art local community. Rauschenberg’s mindset when it comes to the ways of art expanded to media, people, almost everything. Rauschenberg opened art to: engineers, socialites, All-About-Eve personnel, politicians, industry unionists, dancers, instant collectors, Utopians, scientists, foundation swingers, art groupies, and every one rubbed shoulders with the incongruous aspects in Rauschenberg’s art. This rich blend seemed to validate the desire populists always possess: that the boundaries of fine art are breaking down.
He carried the day when fashion compelled the art community to go along with him – right until that time in 1964 when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale. They institutionalized his irony, which he tended to leave wide open and naive through the elimination of process as well as presenting a facade of subject theme. Subject matter, which he had clearly shown was not incompatible with aesthetic discourse. When the subject theme has been the everyday object, the irony was constructed into the surface. It was not just the object that became subject theme but the application of commercial style as subject theme. The fact that the style seemed to be modern ended up being one of the things which made Pop groundbreaking.
His technique has been occasionally known as “Neo Dadaist.” Rauschenberg wanted to work “in the gap involving art and life”, between art {objects} and every day objects. Rauschenberg took a stride in exactly what can be considered the opposite path by means of championing the role of creator in creating art’s meaning. His paintings were starting to integrate not just found items but found images also – photos transferred to the canvas through the silkscreen process. Silkscreen allowed Rauschenberg to handle the amount of reproducibility of images.
In 1984, Rauschenberg announced his Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI), at the United Nations. This culminated a seven year, ten country expedition in order to motivate “world peace and understanding,” through Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Beijing, Lhasa (Tibet), Japan, Cuba, Soviet Union, Berlin, and Malaysia wherein he left a piece of art, and was inspired by the countries he went to. Paintings, often on reflective materials, along with drawings, pictures, assemblages and other multimedia were made, inspired by these environment, that has been regarded as some of his strongest works.
Besides painting and sculpture, his career included as well major input to printmaking and Performance Art. Rauschenberg made “White Paintings,” in the tradition of monochromatic piece of art, whose purpose was to lessen painting to its most essential nature. The Black Paintings just like the White Paintings were accomplished on several sections and were single color works. He had moved from the monochromatic paintings of the White Painting and Black Painting series, to the Red Painting series. These mixed media paintings were created with different kinds of paint applications of red paint, and with the addition of materials like wood, nails, newsprint and other materials to the canvas produced complex painting surfaces, and were forerunners of Rauschenberg’s well-known Combine collection. His neutrality was of a different order and his awesome recognition with the moment far less flawless. During the height of Rauschenberg’s powers in the 60′s, Rauschenberg’s splendid effervescence dispensed with any historic delays as Rauschenberg rode his wave. Yet his ebullient resolve for art as a short-term venture never really disposed of the fact that he was an educated artist.
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