Rauschenberg Robert

To make a work by need is a swindle compared to art. It seems to to me that to a large extent the urgency to be worked lies in the fact that one acts freely. To do something for which the need can be given only afterwards and which this judgement is prone to modification constantly. It is extremely important that art is justifiable. Robert Rauschenberg. After is studies of pharmacy and an engagement in the American marine during the Second World war, Rauschenberg registered in Kansas City Art Institute where it studies painting, the history of art, the composition, the sculpture, the music, the anatomy and the fashion of 1947? 1948. In 1948, it does art leave to study? Paris (? The Jullian Academy) what seems essential to him in the training of an artist. At the time, its meeting with Josef Albers will have a great influence on its tables. Later, it will meet Willem de Kooning, this meeting will be decisive for its work. In 1949 it leaves to study photography in Black Moutain College, in the North of California. It is there that it meets John Cage (type-setter) and Merce Cunningham (dancer) In 1950 it joined New York and Art Students League. It will change several times of workshop on New York before stopping in 1955 and divides then its workshop with Jasper Johns. 1951, First personal exposure to Betty Parson gallery of New York. It is the time of monochromic paintings where White Paintings Black Paintings and Red Paintings inspired by her friend John Cage who practised Buddhism. It leaves to make a stay in Europe and in North Africa in 1952 with the artist Cy Twombly, creates joinings which announce its method of combination of disparate topics whose majority of the reasons will take place in its iconographic register definitively. It is the obliteration of a drawing of Kooning into 1953 which will influence Rauschenberg deeply. It will create them? Combine Painting starting from an attempt at rewriting of art for art (by the total opening). It is estimated that it is at the origin of Pop Art `the instar of J. Johns. In 1959 it takes part in the first biennial one of Paris and will expose at Daniel Cordier. It starts to explore the technique of the transfer in its work of engraving since 1962. Its first personal exposure will take place in 1963 in Jewish Museum of New York. It receives the great price of XXXIIéme biennial of Venice in 1964. Then, in 1966, it melts them? Experiments in Art and Technology with (E.A.T.) or Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchanges with (R.O.C.I.) with engineer Billy Kléver. The purpose of this group is to facilitate an exchange between the artists and the engineers. What enabled him to attend the takeoff of Apollo 11 in 1969. During the following years, Rauschenberg explores the use of metal like support for painting, enamel and the screen printed images. The found images and objects return to the voyages of the artist, while polished metal surfaces reflect the immediate environment of works.