Robert Rauschenberg Research Paper

Robert Rauschenberg
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Robert Rauschenberg was born 22 October 1925, born in 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, but possibly influenced his later work with assemblages and collage. Rauschenberg drew frequently and copied images from comics. 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
He had visions by looking at found objects and finding inspiration from these objects and turning them into art like what he did in Monogram. Rauschenberg believed that painting related to "both art and life. Neither can be made." Following from this belief, he created artworks that move between these states in constant dialogue with the viewers and the surrounding world, as well as with art history. He allowed the chance to determine the placement and combination of the different found images and objects in his artwork such that there were no predetermined arrangements or meanings embedded within the works. This idea is demonstrated in one of his pieces called ‘Canyon’ where its upper half is a mass of materials that include bits of a shirt, printed paper, a squashed tube of paint, and photographs all seemingly held in place by broad slashes of house paint, while its lower half consists of a stuffed bald eagle with outstretched wings about to lift off from an opened box. The box seems to balance precariously upon a beam that tilts downward to the right; its end point meets the frame. As if that were not enough, that beams suspend a pillow dangling below the frame and squeezed in half by the cloth
In some of his work Rauschenberg tries to get people’s attention with little paintings by making them unusual and extraordinary. Rauschenberg’s main goal with his art was to purposely play with people minds daring them to fill in the blanks of his work and creativity. In ‘Reservoir’, it’s not just a normal painting. It includes, fabric, wood, glass, graphite, paint and rubber. These elements do not ass up to a single meaning. Instead they convey both the randomness and order that Rauschenberg saw in everyday life and what he wanted his audience to see in his artwork making their own mind on what they see. Rauschenberg held an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou DECEMBER 20, 2005–APRIL 2, 2006. This exhibition was a comprehensive survey of the highly inventive body of work that Robert Rauschenberg (American, b. 1925) terms "combines." Among the sixty-seven works on view are several that have never before been shown publicly. With these mixed-media works of art, Rauschenberg reinvented collage, changing it from a medium that presses commonplace materials to serve illusion into something very different: a process that undermines both illusion and the idea that a work of art has a unitary meaning. Appearing as either wall-hung works or as freestanding objects, the combines are composed as syncopated grids that draw on materials from everyday life and the history of