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Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg was an American painter and multi-media artist, whose work has been associated with numerous mid-20th century art movements including the New York School, Conceptual Art, Pop art, and Neo-Dada. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distincti…
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culture · American painter and graphic artist (1925–2008) · photographer · painter · sculptor · choreographer · printmaker · designer · performance artist · graphic artist · collagist · assemblage artist · also Robert Rauschenberg, Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, Bob Rauschenberg, Matson Jones, Rauschenberg
Born 22 October 1925 · Died 12 May 2008 · Q164358
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2026· 4 entries
“so you could almost tell how many people are in the room.”
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“painting relates to both art and life,”
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Financial Times: When Robert Rauschenberg’s art took flight
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2025· 1 entry
Women's Wear Daily: EXCLUSIVE: Jason Wu Partnering With Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for Spring 2026
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2024· 1 entry
Observer: Why 2025 Is Going to Be the Year of Robert Rauschenberg
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2022· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Seeing Robert Rauschenberg for the First Time, All Over Again
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Artnet: The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Will Publish a 10-Volume Catalogue Raisonné on the Artist Over the Next Two Decades
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2019· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Robert Rauschenberg and the Men on the Moon
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Christie's sold the silkscreen painting Buffalo II (1964) for $88
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2017· 1 entry
Town & Country: Inside Robert Rauschenberg’s Squad
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2014· 1 entry
SFGate: Art review: Robert Rauschenberg views the moon mission
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2013· 1 entry
Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked Open Score (1966) seventh in his list of the all-time greatest performance art works
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2011· 2 entries
The foundation launched its "Artist as Activist" project and invited artist Shepard Fairey to focus on an issue of his choice
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The foundation presented The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, featuring selections from Rauschenberg's personal art collection
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2010· 1 entry
Studio Painting (1960‑61), one of Rauschenberg's Combines originally estimated at $6 million to $9 million, was bought from the collection of Michael Crichton for $11 million at Christie's, New York
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2008· 2 entries
Died 2008-05-12.
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“I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.”
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2006· 1 entry
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, an exhibition of over 65 of his works
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2004· 1 entry
(from The Gallery of Fine Art, founded 1979) in Rauschenberg's honor and with his blessing
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2000· 1 entry
Rauschenberg was honored with amfAR's Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1998).
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The Vatican commissioned a work by Rauschenberg in honor of the Jubilee year 2000 to be displayed in the Padre Pio Liturgical Hall, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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1991· 1 entry
Concluding a ten-country tour: Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, China, Tibet, Japan, Cuba, U
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1990· 1 entry
Rauschenberg created the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) to promote awareness of the causes he cared about, such as world peace, the environment and humanitarian issues
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1986· 2 entries
Rauschenberg was commissioned by BMW to paint a full size BMW 635 CSi for the sixth installment of the famed BMW Art Car Project
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Rauschenberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1984· 2 entries
Rauschenberg announced the start of his Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) at the United Nations
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As an effort to spark international dialogue and enhance cultural understanding through artistic expression
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1983· 1 entry
Won a Grammy Award for his album design of Talking Heads' album Speaking in Tongues
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1979· 1 entry
The Miami Herald printed 650,000 copies of Tropic, its Sunday magazine, with a cover designed by Rauschenberg
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1977· 1 entry
Rauschenberg, Cunningham, and Cage reconnected as collaborators for the first time in thirteen years to create Travelogue (1977), for which Rauschenberg contributed the costume and set designs
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1976· 1 entry
When California governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Resale Royalty Act of 1976
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1971· 1 entry
“from photographic and mechanical transfers as well as relief printing
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1970· 1 entry
Rauschenberg created a program called Change, Inc
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1969· 2 entries
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City commissioned Rauschenberg to create a piece in honor of its centennial
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NASA invited Rauschenberg to witness the launch of Apollo 11
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1966· 2 entries
Rauschenberg created the Open Score performance for part of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York
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Klüver and Rauschenberg officially launched Experiments in Art and Technology (E
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1965· 1 entry
When Life magazine commissioned him to visualize a modern Inferno, he did not hesitate to vent his rage at the Vietnam War and other contemporary sociopolitical issues, including racial violence, neo-Nazism, political as
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1964· 1 entry
Became one of the first American artists to win the International Grand Prize in Painting at the Venice Biennale (James Whistler and Mark Tobey had previously won painting prizes in 1895 and 1958 respectively)
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1961· 1 entry
Rauschenberg explored a similar conceptual approach by presenting an idea as the artwork itself
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1954· 1 entry
Rauschenberg presented his Red Paintings (1953–1953) and Combines (1954–1964)
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1953· 3 entries
While in Italy, he was noted by Irene Brin and Gaspero del Corso and they organized his first European exhibition in their famous gallery in Rome
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Rauschenberg began creating sculpture with found materials from his Lower Manhattan neighborhood, such as scrap metal, wood, and twine
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Eleanor Ward invited Rauschenberg to participate in a joint exhibition with Cy Twombly at the Stable Gallery
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1951· 1 entry
Rauschenberg created his White Painting series in the tradition of monochromatic painting established by Kazimir Malevich, who reduced painting to its most essential qualities for an experience of aesthetic purity and in
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1948· 1 entry
Rauschenberg joined Weil in enrolling at Black Mountain College in North Carolina
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-22.
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