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  • NAME: Robert Rauschenberg
  • OCCUPATION: Painter, Sculptor
  • BIRTH DATE: October 22, 1925
  • DEATH DATE: May 12, 2008
  • EDUCATION: Académie Julien, Black Mountain College, Kansas City Art Institute
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Port Arthur, Texas
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Captiva, Florida
  • Originally: Milton Ernst Rauschenberg

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American artist Robert Rauschenberg is best known for paving the way for pop art of the 1960's with fellow artist Jasper Johns.

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American artist Robert Rauschenberg is best known for paving the way for pop art of the 1960's with fellow artist Jasper John by making use of non-traditional materials and questioning the distinction between art and everyday objects. He worked as a costume and stage designer in New York City before moving to painting, sculpture, music and collage to produce his work.

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American artist. Milton Ernst Rauschenberg was born on October 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute (1946–7), the Académie Julien, Paris (1947), and with Josef Albers and John Cage at Black Mountain College, North Carolina (1948–50).

Traveling widely, he was based in New York City from 1950, where he and Jasper Johns paved the way for pop art of the 1960s. He worked with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, New York, as costume and stage designer (1955–64).

An imaginative and eclectic artist, he used a mix of sculpture and paint in works he called ‘combines’, as seen in The Bed (1955). From the late 1950s he incorporated sound and motors in his work, such as Broadcast (1959), and silk-screen transfers, as in Flush (1964).

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he experimented with collage and new ways to transfer photographs. In 1997 the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York City, staged a major exhibition of his works, showcasing the breadth and beauty of his work and its influence over the second half of the century.

Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg died on May 12, 2008 in Lee County, Florida.

 

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