1. R.R. & J.J. Presented by: D.S.S.F

2. Robert Rauschenberg American collagist, painter and graphic artist Movement: Neo-Dada Born: Oct 22 1925, Texas

3. Background Studied at the University of Texas in Austin Became a medical technician in Navy Hospital Corps in San Diego (1943) While on his leave, he saw oil paintings at Huntington Art Gallery, California and was inspired to enter the art industry.

4. Style  Used common day-to-day and unusual combinations of materials  Mixed media: collage of ready-mades & paint  Uses chance to determine the placement and combination of the different found images and objects in his artwork – Neo Dada

5. Canyon (1959) Oil, pencil, paper, metal, photograph, fabric, wood, canvas, buttons, mirror, taxidermied eagle, cardboard, pillow, paint tube and other materials The Coca Cola Plan (1958) Pencil on paper, oil on three Coca-Cola bottles, wood newel cap, and cast metal wings on wood structure

6. "I was bombarded with television sets and magazines, by the excess of the world. I thought an honest work should incorporate all of those elements." Skyway (1964) Oil and silkscreen on canvas

7. Jasper Johns American Painter and Printmaker Movement: Neo-Dada Born: May 15, 1930 (Augusta, Georgia)

8. Background Studied at the University of South Carolina (1947). Two years military service (1951). Johns met Robert Rauschenberg (1953). Johns received his first solo exhibition (1958).

9. Style Flags, targets and numbers as main subject of his works – iconic and well known – gives more attention to the process

10. Uses the idea of artist’s brush strokes as a form of symbol, manipulate the meaning of his artworks  inspired by Marcel Duchamp  artwork’s meaning to be resolved within the viewer’s mind Breaks the art stereotype  uses unconventional items that are too common to notice into his work  shreds of newspaper, found objects, mass-produced goods

11. “Flag” (1954-55) Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels

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