Robert Rauschenberg

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Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist known for his pioneering “Combines” that merged painting and sculpture, helping bridge Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf artist
human
painter
photographer
printmaker
sculptor
activeYearsEnd 2000s
activeYearsStart 1940s
awardReceived International Grand Prize in Painting at the Venice Biennale
National Medal of Arts
Praemium Imperiale
birthName Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
causeOfDeath heart failure
collaboratedWith Jasper Johns
John Cage
Merce Cunningham
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1925-10-22
dateOfDeath 2008-05-12
educatedAt Académie Julian
Art Students League of New York
Black Mountain College
Kansas City Art Institute
familyName Rauschenberg
fieldOfWork contemporary art
visual arts
founded Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI)
genre collage
combine painting
performance art
givenName Ernest
Milton
influenced Andy Warhol
Jasper Johns
Pop Art artists
influencedBy John Cage
Marcel Duchamp
Merce Cunningham
Willem de Kooning
knownFor Combines
assemblage
mixed-media art
silkscreen paintings
movement Abstract Expressionism
Conceptual art
Neo-Dada
Pop Art
name Robert Rauschenberg
nationality American
notableWork Bed
Canyon
Erased de Kooning Drawing
Factum I
Factum II
Monogram
Retroactive I
partner Jasper Johns
placeOfBirth Port Arthur, Texas, United States
placeOfDeath Captiva Island, Florida, United States
residence Captiva Island, Florida
New York City
yearAwarded 1964 Venice Biennale painting prize


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