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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