Robert Rauschenberg

One of the revolutionaries of the arts still alive, Rauschenberg exploded the boundaries between painting and sculpture.

In the 50’s his “Combines” cemented his place in art history consisting of an innovative and rich combination of paint and all kinds of non traditional materials, often found on his own rubbish dump (Coca-Cola bottles, pinups, rubber tyres and stuffed animals).

His enthusiasm for popular culture and interest in the artistic representation of everyday objects and people, led him to use magazine photographs of current events and familiar images such as JFK.

This new method turned Rauschenberg into a feature painter on contemporary society and is often seen as enabling transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art.

The idea of combining objects and images is Rauschenberg's core work, still on development in Captiva, Florida, where he lives.