The 8 Artworks of Robert Rauschenberg B

Robert Rauschenberg has been identified as a forerunner of virtually every postwar American art movement since Abstract Expressionism, though he remained fiercely independent of any particular affiliation throughout his long career. Barge, a single canvas measuring almost 10 meters in width, is the ...

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In the early 1960s, Robert Rauschenberg dismissed long-held distinctions between painting and sculpture, and art and everyday life, by creating assemblages, or what he called “combines.” Here he loaded a plywood surface with paint, discarded cans, a piece of a life raft, and rusted metal shards. The...

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Few artists of the twentieth century exerted as immense an influence over a diversity of fields as Robert Rauschenberg. As a visual artist, Rauschenberg sensed the limitations of Abstract Expressionism and laid the foundation for Pop Art. His combines of the 1950s were audacious in their use of foun...

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A “Combine” is neither a sculpture nor a painting but rather a hybrid of the two. Robert Rauschenberg developed the term to describe a series of works he began in 1954 that eluded traditional art media categories. Collection (1954/1955) is the artist’s first “Combine painting,” an early type of Comb...

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