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A goal of Robert Rauschenberg's work
was to challenge the viewer to
question their understanding of the
elements of their everyday lives and
culture, and he did this by blending
together different images to spark new
dialogue. In this piece, we see Imagery
ranging from renaissance-era
portraiture to more modern graphics
that organise information.
Whilst Rauschenberg was a celebrated
multimedia artist prior to embarking
into the print world, the screenprinting
technique entirely liberated
Rauschenberg's work. With both forms
of printmaking, the artist discovered
ways in which he could quickly and
repetitively his found imagery to the
canvas of his paintings and Combines.
Rauschenberg believed that the
printmaking technique of lithography
was old-fashioned and is notorious for
having stated that 'the second half of
the twentieth century is no time to
start writing on rocks'. Ironically, it is
Rauschenberg who became a
significant figure in the resurrection of
American printmaking that occurred
during the 1960s. He has
subsequently worked with many
leading print workshops to create
more than 800 published editions
Printmaking is a technique perfectly
suited to his methodology of layering
found images and one which gave him
total control over the size and scale of
each component image. It was
through printmaking that
Rauschenberg was able to once again
blur the distinctions between media
and perfectly unite his obsessive use
of the photographic image with
painterly techniques