Rauschenberg’s ‘Combines’ came to define his career; using various mundane objects such as cardboard and even trash, combined with paint,
« There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. »
Robert Rauschenberg
the artist created his three-dimensional collage paintings of which he remarked ‘I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world’ - such works as Rhyme and Bantam are among his most acclaimed Combines. (
Artist website)
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Rauschenberg’s ‘Combines’ came to define his career; using various mundane objects such as cardboard and even trash, combined with paint,
« There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. »
Robert Rauschenberg
the artist created his three-dimensional collage paintings of which he remarked ‘I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world’ - such works as Rhyme and Bantam are among his most acclaimed Combines. (
Artist website)
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