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Monogram (artwork)
''Monogram'' is a Combine by American artist Robert Rauschenberg, made from 1955-1959. It consists of a stuffed Angora goat with its midsection passing through an automobile tire. Critic Jorg von Uthmann described it as Rauschenberg's most famous work in the Huffington Post. In 1965, Pontus Hultén purchased the artwork for the collection of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. History Rauschenberg created a series of artworks between 1954 and 1964 that merge aspects of both traditional painting and sculpture. He coined the term “ Combine” to describe this new artistic category. ''Monogram'' typifies the idea of the Combine as a free-standing sculptural artwork that also incorporates a painted canvas. The artist first saw the stuffed Angora goat in the window of a secondhand furniture store at Seventh Avenue in New York. He bought it for $15 which was all of the money that he had on him at the time. Over the next four years (1955–1959), ''Monogram'' evolved through three d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance. Rauschenberg received numerous awards during his nearly 60-year artistic career. Among the most prominent were the International Grand Prize in Painting at the 32nd Venice Biennale in 1964 and the National Medal of Arts in 1993. Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida, until his death on May 12, 2008. Life and career Rauschenberg was born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas, the son of Dora Carolina (née Matson) and Ernest R. Rauschenberg. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
