Tuesday 27 October 2009

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg work has had a very strong impact in the late twentieth century visual culture. His work is inspired and influenced by the developments of post-war american art.
His work is quite experimental and he has been using different techniques, but one of the bases of his works has been the collage techniques. Collage was initially developed in 1920 by Dada artists such as Kurt Schwitters. The collages in Rauschenberg's work contains layered image sequence or image sentences that sort of creates a narrative that the viewer can sort of read through the progression of the images. The way that he distributes his collages are quite different, it demands a different kind of looking, you sort of have to look at it quite a few times to see all the images, looking at each image individually and then perceiving the composition as a whole.


I really like the composition of this collage, even though there is a lot of images in the collage and there is not that much white space placement of all the images are quite interesting and very well thought of. The tones in this collage are very interesting, because I think they go very well, the reds and the greens and the 60's and 70's images have the sort of same tones which makes it ascetically pleasing. This collage communicates very well his inspirations of the post war,which was one of his main inspirations in his work in this period of his career.

I really like this collage, the way that he combined the images and the colour is very interesting, it looks like if it was drawn on top of the collage. I have always admired Rauschenberg's work and I love the page layout, especially in this work because the way that he cut out the big stop sigh and all of the buildings on the back , create a feeling of a city. What I love about this collage is the way the images are placed , is quite unique. The different buildings with different colours make a very nice composition. I really like how some images of buildings are cut out nicely and some are square images in the middle of the collage. I believe it might be New York because of the Statue of Liberty that is in the bottom of the collage, and I really like that it is a square image, and not necessarily cut out nicely.




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