1. Collage Meets Sculpture
Robert Rauschenberg
Collage
Meets
Sculpture

2. Contemporary Assemblage Artist
1925 – 2008
Assemblage Artist
Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium.
Painter, collage artist, sculptor, printmaker

3. Art Movement
An artistic style or tendency seen in the intentions or works of a number of artists, because there is a striking similarity among the techniques, philosophy or goals they have embraced.
Rauschenberg is part of the Neo-Dada movement, between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art

4. Neo – Dada Art Movement
Dada Pop Art

5. Dadaism
Dada means “Nonsense” – Early 20th Century Art movement based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty – no “pretty pictures”

6. Pop Art
Art movement that depicts objects or scenes from popular culture and everyday life - employs techniques of commercial art

7. Rauschenberg’s Fame: The Combine Art Materials + Everyday Objects
A Combine is "in the gap between art and life”:
2-D and 3-D present in a single work of art.
Ex: Paint + Trash + Clay + Newspaper + Rocks + Ink all in one

8. Bed
First of the Combines, Bed was created by dripping red paint across a quilt. Some critics considered the work to be a symbol or violence and rape.
Bed Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports

9. Canyon
Canyon, 1959, oil, house & tube paints, pencil, paper, metal, photographs, fabric, wood on canvas, buttons, mirror, stuffed eagle, cardboard box, pillow, and nails.

10. Monogram
Monogram, 1959, taxidermy goat, rubber tire, tennis ball, paint, police barrier, heel of a shoe

11. Winter Pool
Winter Pool, 1959, oil, paper, fabric, wood, metal, sandpaper, tape, printed paper, printed reproductions, handheld bellows, and found painting, on two canvases, with wooden ladder