Robert Rauschenburg:

Assemblage and Combines

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance.

Robert Rauschenberg

• In 1965, Life magazine commissioned him to visualize a modern Inferno, he did not hesitate to vent his rage at the Vietnam War and a whole range of horrors, including racial violence, neo-Nazism, political assassinations, and ecological disaster.

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

Your assignment

• For your assignment you are to create your own mixed media artwork!

• You are to pick a current event to focus your piece on.

• You are to use at least 5 different mediums on your piece, and have at least 7 areas of overlap/layering.

• You are to include text, images, and abstract imagery.

Current Events• Edward Snowden • #yesallwomen and womens rights• Deryck Whibley and addiction• Pakistan stoning kills pregnant daughter who married for love.• Alaska wildfires burn area size of chicago• Ukraine and Russia• Kidnapping in Nigeria• Decline in bee population and how it will effect our entire world• First nations women murders in Canada• Mental illness reduces your lifespan more than smoking.• Violent protests and strikes in Brazil. Ex 10 thousand teachers are on strike• 2014 Nazi demonstrations ex. Vienna, Attack on city hall in Germany• Afghan refugees get their mouths sewn • #Soma