Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle, 1962 - 1965

Presentation by Suzannah Tarkington

Life and Art

1925

Born in Port Arthur, TX

1943

Attended University of Texas

School of Pharmacology

1944

Drafted into the U.S. Navy

1947

Kansas City Art Institute

1948

Academie Julian in Paris

Studied under Josef Albers at
Black Mountain College

1951

1st Solo Exhibition

1952

Travels to Europe and North Africa

1953

Met Jasper Johns

1954

Coined the term Combines

1962

Silkscreen Paintings
Oracle

1963

1st Retrospective

1964

Grand Prize for Painting at Venice Biennale

1970s
2008

Vietnam Protest, Permanent residence

in Captiva Island, FL
Death in Captiva Island, FL

Neo-Dada
Pre-Pop Combines and Assemblages, Nouveau Realisme and Pop Art
1950s and 1960s America
Reinvestigation of Dadas irony
Collage, assemblage, and found materials
Anti-aesthetic
Found objects
Banal activities
Social and aesthetic critique
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe I Love your Kiss Forever Forever, 1964

Hannah Hoch, Da-Dandy, 1919

Jasper Johns, Decoy, 1971

Robert Rauschenberg, Almanac, 1962

Jacques Villegle, 122 rue du temple, 1968

Untitled (Mona Lisa), 1952

Quiet House - Black Mountain, 1949

Untitled (Scatole Personali), 1952

White Painting (Four Panel), 1951

Untitled (Mona Lisa), 1952

Susan - Central Park N.Y. C. (II), 1951

Untitled (Elemental Sculpture), 1953

He wanted to make work in the gap between art and life

Progression Towards Conceptually Oriented Work

and Combines

Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953

Automobile Tire Print, 1953

Untitled (Red Painting), 1953-1954

Combines:
Coined by Rauschenberg,
work that integrates aspects of
painting and sculpture

Oracle, 1962 - 1965

An interactive sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg, Billy Kluver, and Harold Hodges

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv8mxw_art-session-oracle-de-rauschenberg_creation

He asked me if it was possible to make an interactive environment, where the temperature,

sound, smell, lights etc. could be affected by the person who moved through it.
Kluver on Rauschenbergs request to work together

Pantomime, 1961

Reservoir,1961

Rauschenberg assembling the Aeon machine

for Merce Cunningham Dance Companys
Aeon, 1961, Japan

Study for Oracle, 1965

Billy Kluver installing Oracle

Harold Hodges and Robert Rauschenberg

Rauschenbergs Relationship to Pop Art

Rauschenberg in his studio screenprinting

Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963

Andy Warhol, Let us Now Praise Famous Men, 1963

Andy Warhol, Jackie (Four Jackies), 1964

Bibliography
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/1396?gclid=CMCmk_Kd6MsCFeIp0wod22AOIQ
http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/62254.html
http://jiminy.medialab.sciences-po.fr/eat_datascape/project/3
http://home.marfadialogues.org/news/some-history-robert-rauschenberg-and-social-and-environmental-activism-1-of-2/
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/movements/195225
http://www.moma.org/collection/works/35414?locale=en