Robert Rauschenberg





Born October 22, 1925 and died May 12, 2008 of heart failure. Robert was an American with Indian ancestry. In the 1950's he made a transformation from abstract expressionism to pop art. His most famous artworks are combines of painting and sculpture. He also did photography, printmaking, papermaking,choreography, and performed. He went to art school in Paris and worked in New York. He used to go for a walk and look for interesting objects and shapes, such as trash, or photographs and give them a new look or change them into something different that you would not recognize. Much of his artwork is done and appears like a collage with paint and photos and then a clay sculpture is added to the picture to make something stand out from it. His work is colorful and seems as though he wanted to have fun with it like a child in art class. In 2007 the Merce Cunningham Center used Roberts artwork as a backdrops on stage for the performance of "Xover". His best known objects are Monogram and Canyon.
Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. “Canyon,” for instance, consisted of a stuffed bald eagle attached to a canvas. “Monogram” was a stuffed goat girdled by a tire atop a painted panel. “Bed” entailed a quilt, sheet and pillow, slathered with paint, as if soaked in blood, framed on the wall. Six of his pieces were done entirely out of cardboard boxes layered and spread out on the wall as a hanging. I like his style. I would like to try a version of my own that would resemble his work. I like how how combined all his media into one piece. When he became rich he gave millions of dollars to charities for women, children, and medical research.