Robert rauschenberg biography book

Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective ()

In and Robert Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. He then left America and moved to Paris.

There he continued his art studies at the Académie Julian in The following year he returned to America and attended Black Mountain College until There he was a student of the German-American painter and designer Josef Albers.

He also studied at the Art Student's League with the American painter and art writer Robert Motherwell, the Polish-born painter Jack Tworkov and the American painter Franz Kline.

Rauschenberg was inspired by the Dadaist works of the German painter, sculptor and poet Kurt Schwitters, by the ready-mades of the French artist Marcel Duchamp and by the style of the American composer John Cage; This resulted in "white" and "black" pictures in the first half of the s.

Rauschenberg then made his collages in an expressionist painting style, which he combined with textile materi