Robert Rauschenberg

Soooo...Robert Rauschenberg is awesome! New meaning to collage right thurr. Ostensibly, Rauschenberg compares to the ideologies of Duchamp and Cage, hence he is in this reader. His work travels in all directions, it is all inclusive, yet all exclusive. One of the endless cool things about Rauschenberg is that he does not simply use mediums or allow mediums to use him to create "art," rather it is the act, the duet of the two together that creates art. Rauschenberg believed that in order to create art that resembles daily life, one must use objects of daily life: "I don't want a picture to look like soemthing it isn't, I want it to look like something it is. And I think a picture is more like the real world when it's made out of the real world. Rauschenberg created the "combine". This occurs when he uses objects together always respecting their integrity, 'never altering their appearance to the point where they function merely as formal shapes in the composition and never allowing them to serve merely symbolic ends. The objects and fragments come through relatively intact, with strong overtones of their life in the real world before they embarked upon their present life in art'.