Artist bio
Radical blending of materials and methods brought Robert Rauschenberg to the forefront of several art movements, including Pop Art. Being one of the early innovators of silkscreen printing, Rauschenberg took advantage of new commercial printmaking processes of the time, thus transferring photographs and images to the canvas. The multiple reproducibility of images, which had been used only in commercial applications up until that point, became an innovative tool in the creative hands of Robert Rauschenberg. By combining oil painting with photographic silkscreen, he mirrored our experience of mass-media, capturing the visual noise in a framework of ironic allegory. Alongside of Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg would lay the foundations for the bridge between Abstract Expressionism and what would become American Pop Art.
