r.r. & j.j. presented by: d.s.s.f. robert rauschenberg american collagist, painter and graphic...
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Background Studied at the University of Texas in Austin Became a medical technician in Navy Hospital Corps in San Diego (1943) While on his leave, he saw oil paintings at Huntington Art Gallery, California and was inspired to enter the art industry.TRANSCRIPT
R.R. & J.J. Presented by: D.S.S.F
Robert Rauschenberg
American collagist, painter and graphic artistMovement: Neo-DadaBorn: Oct 22 1925, Texas
Background• Studied at the University of Texas in Austin
• Became a medical technician in Navy
Hospital Corps in San Diego (1943)
• While on his leave, he saw oil paintings at
Huntington Art Gallery, California and was
inspired to enter the art industry.
Style Used common day-to-day and unusual
combinations of materials
Mixed media: collage of ready-mades & paint
Uses chance to determine the placement and combination of the different found images and objects in his artwork – Neo Dada
Canyon (1959)Oil, pencil, paper, metal, photograph, fabric, wood, canvas, buttons, mirror, taxidermied eagle, cardboard, pillow, paint tube and other materials
The Coca Cola Plan (1958)Pencil on paper, oil on three Coca-Cola bottles, wood newel cap, and cast metal wings on wood structure
"I was bombarded with television sets and magazines, by the excess of the world. I thought an honest work should incorporate all of those elements."
Skyway (1964)Oil and silkscreen on canvas
Jasper Johns
American Painter and PrintmakerMovement: Neo-DadaBorn: May 15, 1930 (Augusta, Georgia)
Background
• Studied at the University of South Carolina
(1947).
• Two years military service (1951).
• Johns met Robert Rauschenberg (1953).
• Johns received his first solo exhibition
(1958).
Style
Flags, targets and numbers as main subject of his works– iconic and well known– gives more attention to the process
Uses the idea of artist’s brush strokes
as a form of symbol, manipulate the
meaning of his artworks inspired by Marcel Duchamp
artwork’s meaning to be resolved within
the viewer’s mind
Breaks the art stereotype uses unconventional items that are too
common to notice into his work
shreds of newspaper, found objects,
mass-produced goods
“Flag” (1954-55) Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels
Thank you.