Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, Texas, 1925 – Captiva Island, Florida, 2008) was a key artist in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He considered Expressionism pedantic and removed from everyday reality, so he sought a more dire...
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Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, Texas, 1925 – Captiva Island, Florida, 2008) was a key artist in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He considered Expressionism pedantic and removed from everyday reality, so he sought a more direct art, based on common objects and everyday life.
He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met his future wife, Susan Weil. Together they attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where Rauschenberg was a student of Josef Albers and established a collaboration with composer John Cage. In the late 1950s, he developed the "Combines," works that fused painting and sculpture by incorporating everyday objects, challenging traditional boundaries of art. In 1964, he was the first American artist to receive the Grand Prix in Painting at the Venice Biennale. Throughout his career, Rauschenberg received numerous awards, including the Leonardo da Vinci World Prize for the Arts in 1995. He died in 2008 at his residence on Captiva Island, Florida.
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