Robert Rauschenberg: Riding Bikes
Around 1960, Robert Rauschenberg developed a new and positive viewpoint against the predominant abstract art, concentrating on the real world around us with all its banal, empty and kitschy facades: "For me, there's no difference between art and life".
"Combines": Art and Life
He made a successful breakthrough in the fifties with his assemblage sculptures and "combine paintings", works which combine painting with various everyday objects.
On the one hand, these works have an influence on the foundation of Pop Art, on the other hand, they form the starting point for the further artistic development in Rauschenberg's works, in that he then pursued painting and sculptures as independent fields.Silk-screen Printing, Painting and Everyday Objects
In 1962, he discovered the process of silk-screen printing for himself. However, unlike Andy Warhol, he avoided stereotypical repetition and isolation of the motif in favor of conveying a message which is more complex in its content and which has the desired effect on the beholder's political and social conscience. From the mid-sixties onwards, he experimented with electronics.
Alongside his large projects, trips and collaborations, the artist Rauschenberg has remained present. His pictures and sculptures from the nineties show him to be an inventive and progressive leader of his "combines" concept, i.e. of his desire for a transformation of reality into art, with the least possible wastage.
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