Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Artist Robert Rauschenberg Dead at 82

Robert Rauschenberg

October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008

RIP

"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."

Robert Rauschenberg - wiki

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"Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he helped obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.
Mr. Rauschenberg was also instrumental in pushing American art onward from Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement when he emerged, during the early 1950s. He became a transformative link between artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and those who came next, artists identified with Pop, Conceptualism, Happenings, Process Art and other new kinds of art in which he played a signal role."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - NY Times

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