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Museum of Art
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Robert Rauschenberg
(American, b. 1925)
Homage to Frederick Kiesler,
1966
Lithograph, 34" x 22"
1990 Collectors Club Purchase
(90.021) |
In 1957
Robert Rauschenberg, along with Jim Dine, Jasper Johns and James
Rosenquist, began working in lithography at the presses of
Universal Art Editions. They were the first artists of the post
World War II generation to become seriously interested in this
medium, as well as in etching and screen printing, thus
establishing a revival of the painter-engraver tradition on the
North American continent. Homage to Frederick Kiesler, a
collage composition of multiple images, is Rauschenberg's
tribute to an Austrian-born architect best remembered for his
unrealized projects
A native of
Texas, Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and
the Academie Julian in Paris. He also studied with Joseph Albers,
who was a major influence (introducing him to the free brushwork
of Abstract Expressionism). Rauschenberg merged the elements of
painting and sculpture by adding rags and discarded junk to his
canvasses to create works he called "combines." Often regarded as
the most influential of the Abstract Expressionists and the leader
of a return to Realism, Rauschenberg's work is also grouped with
consumer-based images of the Pop artists of the 1960s. |
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Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art
Saint Francis University Mall
P.O. Box 9,
Loretto,
Pennsylvania 15940
Phone: (814) 472-3920
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