May 19, 2015
Robert Rauschenberg
• 1925 - 2008• American mixed-media
artist• Pop Art period• Created and coined
“combines”
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Combines• Hybrid of painting and sculpture• Incorporates everyday objects• Challenges painting as only a
2-dimensional exercise
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Screenprinting• Printing technique using woven
mesh to create an ink stencil image• Allows for mass-produced images• Transfer images from one surface
to the next easily• Became popular in the 1960s
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Pop Art• Art movement that emerged in the
1950s and 1960s • Challenged traditional notions of
fine art• Imagery and subjects from popular
culture• Hybridized painting, sculpture,
collage and other mediums• Explored notions of mass-
producing culture, commodity and advertising
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Modern Art vs. Pop ArtPop art denies an expression of emotion and
showing the obvious hand of the artist
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Junk Art and Found objects• Art created from non-traditional
objects found in common life that do not serve an artistic function
• Started with Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades
• Interest in everyday , consumer life
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