Rauschenberg Bed

Ad reinhardt abstract painting.

Rauschenberg bed. Robert rauschenberg s enthusiasm for popular culture and with his contemporary jasper johns his rejection of the angst and seriousness of the abstract expressionists led him to search for a new way of painting. 52 rauschenberg had his first career retrospective organized by the jewish museum new york in 1963 and in 1964 he was the first american artist to win the grand prize at the venice biennale mark tobey and james whistler had previously won the painting prize. A prolific innovator of techniques and mediums he used unconventional art materials ranging from dirt and house paint to umbrellas and car tires. Helen frankenthaler mountains and sea.

We re on the 4th floor of the museum of modern art in new york and we re looking at robert rauschenberg s bed this is a combine not quite a sculpture not quite a painting from 1955. It was very simply put together because i actually had nothing to paint on except it was summertime and it was hot. This is the currently selected item. The painting techniques of ad reinhardt.

The western hotel 1992. Robert rauschenberg is widely regarded as a predecessor of the pop artists because of his incorporation of the stuff of everyday life including anything that caught his imagination from rubber tires to light bulbs into his wide ranging work in many of his works like bed he merged elements of postwar abstract painting with found objects. Lively piano music voiceover. In this case he framed a well worn pillow sheet and quilt scribbled them with pencil and splashed them with paint in a style derived from abstract expressionism.

In 2006 rauschenberg recalled what led him to use a quilt and a pillow as a basis for this work. Ed kienholz and nancy reddin kienholz useful art 5. Bed is one of rauschenberg s first combines a. With a swift gesture rauschenberg transformed a traditionally horizontal object into a vertical one and in doing so he obstructed the renaissance notion of a painting offering a window onto another ideal world.

Rauschenberg coined the term combine to describe a series of works from the 1950s and 1960s that literally combine the media of painting and sculpture within a single three dimensional art object. Robert rauschenberg created bed at a time when he was struggling to make it as an artist. Rauschenberg knew little about art until he visited an art museum during world war ii while serving in the u s. So i didn t need the quilt.

Bed is one of rauschenberg s first combines his own term for his technique of attaching cast off items such as rubber tires or old furniture to a traditional support. Robert rauschenberg american painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. A remarkable example of rauschenberg s hybridization of painting and sculpture bed represents one of the artist s most significant contributions to the history of modern art.