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Robert Rauschenberg

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Curiosity is the main energy...


— Robert Rauschenberg


#artist #creativity #curiosity #rauschenberg #art

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. - 1959, from a catalogue


— Robert Rauschenberg


#art

A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#art

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#life #art

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#air #also #applying #colored #could

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#i #i think #life #limited #painting

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#i #just #really #sculpture #sick

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#going #here #i #just #mean

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#garbage #immoral #newspaper #people #reading

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.


— Robert Rauschenberg


#bar #cedar #difficult #found #i






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Some critics according to The Daily Telegraph considered the work to be a symbol for violence and rape. His father was of German and Cherokee ancestry and his mother of Anglo-Saxon descent. Life and career
Rauschenberg was born as Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in Port Arthur Texas the son of Dora Carolina (née Matson) and Ernest R.

Robert Rauschenberg (October 22 1925 – May 12 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both but he also worked with photography printmaking papermaking and performance. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations.

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