Word: rauschenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second, among its welter of practitioners, two painters have emerged as the undisputed eye-catchers: Robert Rauschenberg, 38, (TIME, Sept.18), who made off with first honors last summer at the Venice Biennale, and Jasper Johns, 34, pop's most painterly painter (opposite...
Another such adventure in the gap between art and life concerns a stuffed Angora goat with a tire around its tummy. Such agglomerations of oils and objects Rauschenberg calls "combines," for they bridge the gap without being either side...
Frottage. Recently, Rauschenberg has stopped incorporating objects into his work. He uses images of them from newspapers, color comics and magazine pictures. He squirts lighter fluid on the pictures, presses them on his drawing paper, and transfers the images by rubbing on them with an inkless ballpoint pen-a technique called frottage. For big oils such as Tracer, he uses the silk-screen stenciling process to print photographs that strike him. "I feel it's so wasteful not to use the images you find around you," he says. In 1960 he finished 34 delicate frottage drawings to illustrate Dante...
When he takes time off from painting, Rauschenberg is usually with the avant-garde Merce Cunningham ballet company. Ballet is an art form that he likes because "my scale has always been in sympathy with theatrical values." He designs costumes, props and sets for them, even choreographed his own ballet, called Pelican, in which he wears a parachute and roller skates...
Last week Rauschenberg was with the ballet in Stockholm, halfway through a six-month world tour. He revisited a collage combine door that he gave the Swedish Museum of Art in 1961, and was pleased to find it in good repair-down to the last bottle cap and bread crumb. When the tour is over, he should find a nearly bare studio in Manhattan, since he asked a friend to throw out all the silk screens he made before leaving. "Art shouldn't be a pillow you can fall asleep on," says Rauschenberg, who makes art out of pillows...