Rauschenberg

Robert (1925). American artist. A leading member of the New Dada and Pop Art movements, he featured in his work the influence of Dadaist collage and, in particular, the style of inserting actual objects into artworks. In 1974 he created a shirt printed with pieces of newspaper. His photographic studies, which date from the years 1948-1949 at Black Mountain College, were not entirely forgotten because, while Rauschenberg focused on painting, his style was syncretic and could be seen in both his combine paintings and in his silkscreens where we find photographs taken from the daily press, skillfully manipulated and overlapping. In this way, he represented a moment of critical consideration on the use of images in our society, as well as an attempt to shatter the barrier that divides art from life: it is in this context that we should view works such as Bed (1955), where a real, unmade bed was hung on a wall.
&Quad;1997. At the end of the year, the Guggenheim Museum in New York dedicated a major retrospective to his work, exhibiting the works that made him famous in the 1960s.
&Quad;1998, January. Christian Marinotti Edizioni published Anagrams (A Pun), an introductory essay by Gillo Dorfles, devoted to the seventeen large paintings done expressly for the occasion of Rauschenberg’s return to Italy, following a thirty-year absence.
&Quad;He currently lives and works in Florida.