Robert Rauschenberg American, 1925-2008

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was a groundbreaking American artist best known for bridging the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in the mid-20th Century. His work was experimental, collaborative, and deeply influential in pushing the boundaries of what art could be.

Rauschenberg worked in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance, over the span of six decades. He emerged on the American art scene at the time that Abstract Expressionism was dominant, and through the course of his practice he challenged the gestural abstract painting and the model of the heroic, self-expressive artist championed by that movement.