Robert Rauschenberg was a trailblazing American artist whose works anticipated the Pop Art movement and are celebrated as the first postmodern art. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg studied under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. He married Susan Weil and traveled to Paris to study at Académie Julian. Dyslexic from an early age, he became an enfant terrible of the art world when he broke the dominance of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.
Throughout his life, Rauschenberg worked in various mediums such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. He is known for pioneering Combines that blurred the boundaries between painting and sculpture by incorporating everyday objects as art materials. In 1960 he created silkscreen paintings that have since become iconic in contemporary American art.
Themes within his body of work include sequences and progressions through time; grids formats which reference modern technology; doubling and mirroring to disorientate perception while challenging traditional representations of space; storytelling narratives rooted around individual experience relating to nature or media forms; connections between people with individual voice played out upon different platforms.
Rauschenberg’s influence continues today because he expanded what it meant for artists to create new forms with everyday materials on themes without restriction by establishing personal contact-breaking popular values- striking landmarks even within himself by building a consciousness defined both clearly and loosely against tradition.
All Robert Rauschenberg Artwork on Artchive
Artwork Name |
Year |
Medium |
Untitled |
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No Wake Glut |
1986 |
assemblage |
On Hold (Arcadian Retreat) |
1996 |
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Oracle |
1965 |
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Park - ROCI MEXICO |
1985 |
|
Patrician Barnacle (Scale) |
1981 |
|
Persimmon |
1964 |
collage |
Phoenix (Scale) |
1978 |
|
Pilgrim |
1960 |
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Ozone Bus Billboard |
1991 |
|
Pilgrim |
1960 |
assemblage |
Pilot (Jammer) |
1975 |
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Plain Salt (Cardboard) |
1971 |
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Publicon - Station I |
1978 |
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Rainbow Harp |
1985 |
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Recital (Spread) |
1980 |
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Retroactive II |
1963 |
silkscreen,oil,canvas |
Revolver IV |
1967 |
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Riding Bikes |
1998 |
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Rome Flea Market (V) |
1952 |
|
Roundabout (Scenario) |
2005 |
collage |
Samarkand Stitches III |
1988 |
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Sant’Agnese (Venetian) |
1973 |
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Satellite |
1955 |
assemblage,mixed media |
Should Love Come First |
c.1951 |
collage |
Signs |
1970 |
|
Sky Garden (Stoned Moon) |
1968 |
collage |
Skyway |
1964 |
collage |
Soaring Dribble Glut |
1992 |
|
Soar (Runt) |
2007 |
collage |
Allegory |
1960 |
assemblage |
Archive |
1963 |
collage |
Sor Aqua (Venetian) |
1973 |
|
Soviet American Array VI |
1988 |
|
Soviet American Array VII |
1991 |
|
Sri Lanka VI |
1983 |
|
SSS (Seed Sack Stack) (Runt) |
2007 |
collage |
Stop |
1963 |
|
Stop Side Early Winter Glut |
1987 |
assemblage |
Storyline I (Reels [B+C]) |
1968 |
collage |
Streaker |
1997 |
|
Street Sounds East |
1994 |
|
Art Box |
1963 |
|
Automobile Tire Print |
1953 |
|
Balcone Glut (Neapolitan) |
1987 |
assemblage |
Banner (Stoned Moon) |
1969 |
collage |
Bazaar |
1984 |
|
Bed |
1955 |
mixed media |
Bicycloid IX |
1994 |
|
Big Pile of Bones (Scenario) |
2004 |
collage |
Blue Urchin |
1974 |
|
BMW 635 CSi Art Car |
1986 |
|
Studies for Chinese Summerhall #II |
1984 |
|
Studio Painting |
1960 - 1961 |
|
Studio Painting |
1961 |
|
Study for Currents #26 |
1970 |
collage |
Stunt Man I |
1962 |
collage |
Sue |
c.1950 |
|
Sulphur Bank (Hoarfrost) |
1974 |
|
Summerstorm |
1959 |
assemblage |
Susan–Central Park N.Y.C. (III) |
1951 |
|
The Ancient Incident (Kabal American Zephyr) |
1981 |
|
Borealis Shares I |
1990 |
|
Buddha Tickler (Scenario) |
2006 |
collage |
Canto XIV, From XXIV Drawings from Dante's Inferno |
1959 |
|
Canyon |
1959 |
mixed media |
Captiva Coda |
2002 |
|
Catch (Urban Bourbon) |
1993 |
|
Clan Destiny |
1995 |
|
Cover for TIME Magazine—November 29, 1976 |
1976 |
|
Creek |
1964 |
oil,canvas |
The Happy Apocalypse [Original Artwork for Padre Pio Liturgical Hall] |
1999 |
|
The Interloper Tries His Disguises (Kabal American Zephyr) |
1982 |
|
The man with two souls |
1950 |
|
The Tower |
1957 |
|
Third Time Painting |
1961 |
assemblage |
Tibetan Garden Song ROCI TIBET |
1986 |
|
TRIATHLON (SCENARIO) |
2005 |
collage |
Trophy V (for Jasper Johns) |
1962 |
assemblage |
Twilight Shippers (Scenario) |
2005 |
collage |
Untitled |
1955 |
|
Cupule (Spread) |
1979 |
collage |
Cy + Relics, Rome |
1952 |
|
Dart (Signal) |
1980 |
collage |
Deepend (Scenario) |
2006 |
collage |
Doubleluck |
1995 |
|
Dry Cell |
1963 |
|
Dylaby |
1962 |
|
Eco Echo I |
1993 |
|
Embargo (Jammer) |
1976 |
|
Erased de Kooning |
1953 |
|
Untitled |
1963 |
oil,silkscreen,canvas |
Untitled |
1995 |
|
Untitled |
2003 |
|
Untitled [double Rauschenberg] |
c.1950 |
|
Untitled (Early Egyptian) |
1973 |
|
Untitled (Early Egyptian) |
1973 |
|
Untitled (Early Egyptian) |
1973 |
|
Untitled [Feticcio Personale, Rome] |
1952 |
|
Untitled (formerly titled Collage with Horse) |
1957 |
|
Untitled [Franz Kline, Black Mountain] |
1952 |
|
Estate |
1963 |
mixed media |
Express |
1963 |
silkscreen,oil,canvas |
Farm Garden |
1988 |
|
First Landing Jump |
1961 |
assemblage |
Franciscan II |
1972 |
|
Gear (Jammer) |
1976 |
|
Gold Standard |
1964 |
|
Greenhouse Glut (Neapolitan) |
1987 |
assemblage |
Ground Rules (Runt) |
2006 |
collage |
Untitled [glass Tires] |
1997 |
|
Untitled (Gold Painting) |
1964 |
|
Untitled [John Cage, Black Mountain] |
1952 |
|
Untitled (Kabal American Zephyr) |
1983 |
|
Untitled [Merce (III)] |
1953 |
|
Untitled [nine Feticci Personali, Rome] |
1953 |
|
Untitled (Runt) |
2008 |
collage |
Untitled (Runt) |
2008 |
collage |
Harbor |
1964 |
mixed media |
Hillary Rodham Clinton Campaign Print |
2000 |
|
Historic Detour (Scenario) |
2006 |
collage |
Hog Heaven (Scale) |
1973 |
|
Indelible (Runt) |
2006 |
collage |
Individual (From 7 Characters) |
1982 |
assemblage |
Interview |
1955 |
|
Interview |
1955 |
assemblage |
K 24976 S |
1956 |
|
Buffalo II |
1964 |
|
Untitled (Runt) |
2008 |
collage |
Untitled (Runt) |
2008 |
collage |
Untitled (Venetian) |
1973 |
|
Watermark |
1973 |
|
White Painting |
1951 |
oil |
White Painting [four Panel] |
1951 |
|
White Painting [three Panel] |
1951 |
|
White Painting [two Panel] |
1951 |
|
Yellow Moby Glut |
1986 |
|
Yellow Visor Glut |
1989 |
assemblage |
Kite |
1963 |
|
Light House Wall (Runt) |
2007 |
collage |
Local Color (Scenario) |
2006 |
collage |
Lotus III (The Lotus Series) |
2008 |
|
Mango Ice Cave (Scale) |
1977 |
|
Mercury Zero Summer Glut |
1987 |
|
New York City |
1980 |
|
Nile Throne Glut |
1992 |
|
Quattro Mani IV |
1966 |
|
Bed |
1955 |
Mixed Media |
Brace |
1962 |
mixed media |
Monogram |
1955 |
mixed media |
Retroactive I |
1964 |
silkscreen |
Tracer |
1964 |
oil,silkscreen,Canvas |