Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenbergwas an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. 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. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993. He became the recipient of the Leonardo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 October 1925
CityPort Arthur, TX
CountryUnited States of America
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
It is impossible to have progress without conscience
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.
I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
Success is a worn down pencil.
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.
Basically painting is total idiocy.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.