1960's The Arts | Creek

Painting

By: Robert Rauschenberg

Date: 1964

Source: Rauschenberg, Robert. Creek. 1964. Detroit Institute of Arts. Available online athttp://www.dia.org/collections/twenty/69.48.html (accessed February 20, 2003).

About the Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925–) is considered one of the most influential artists of the 1960s. He is noted for departing from abstract expressionism and for questioning relationships between art and life. He studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute, at Academie Julian in Paris, and at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. Rauschenberg had a retrospective exhibition in 1963 at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

Introduction

Robert Rauschenberg's combined understanding of art and music helped him form his unique and innovative techniques. He...