Rauschenberg Posters

Pioneer of Pop Art

One of the pioneers and leading exponents of Pop Art, Robert Rauschenberg has experimented with and often blurred the boundaries between a variety of media, such as painting, object art, photography, and print.

Dynamic technique of composition

His mature poster work from the 1970's onwards displays a dynamic technique of composition, often addressing the subject in a surprising, oblique manner. Rauschenberg employs a collage principle that lends and unusual irony to everyday images and photographs.

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925. Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Académie Julian in Paris, before enrolling in 1948 at the legendary Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Rauschenberg's approach was sometimes called "Neo-Dada," a label he shared with the painter Jasper Johns, with whom he had a long artistic and personal relationship. By 1962, Rauschenberg's paintings were beginning to incorporate not only found objects but found images as well--photographs transferred to the canvas by means of the silkscreen process.

Important artist of the American postwar generation

One of the most important artists of the American postwar generation, Robert Rauschenberg was awarded the Grand Prix for painting at the Vienna Biennale. The works of Robert Rauschenberg have been exhibited worldwide and he continues to have a profound influence on contemporary art. "ROCI: Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Exchange" was published by Prestel in 1991 (now out of print).