Robert Rauschenberg Biography and Artwork

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
No Wake Glut 1986 assemblage
On Hold (Arcadian Retreat) 1996
Oracle 1965
Park - ROCI MEXICO 1985
Patrician Barnacle (Scale) 1981
Persimmon 1964 collage
Phoenix (Scale) 1978
Pilgrim 1960
Ozone Bus Billboard 1991
Pilgrim 1960 assemblage
Pilot (Jammer) 1975
Plain Salt (Cardboard) 1971
Publicon - Station I 1978
Rainbow Harp 1985
Recital (Spread) 1980
Retroactive II 1963 silkscreen,oil,canvas
Revolver IV 1967
Riding Bikes 1998
Rome Flea Market (V) 1952
Roundabout (Scenario) 2005 collage
Samarkand Stitches III 1988
Sant’Agnese (Venetian) 1973
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
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