R.R. & J.J. Presented by: D.S.S.F

Robert Rauschenberg

American collagist, painter and graphic artistMovement: Neo-DadaBorn: Oct 22 1925, Texas

Background• Studied at the University of Texas in Austin

• Became a medical technician in Navy

Hospital Corps in San Diego (1943)

• While on his leave, he saw oil paintings at

Huntington Art Gallery, California and was

inspired to enter the art industry.

Style Used common day-to-day and unusual

combinations of materials

Mixed media: collage of ready-mades & paint

Uses chance to determine the placement and combination of the different found images and objects in his artwork – Neo Dada

Canyon (1959)Oil, pencil, paper, metal, photograph, fabric, wood, canvas, buttons, mirror, taxidermied eagle, cardboard, pillow, paint tube and other materials

The Coca Cola Plan (1958)Pencil on paper, oil on three Coca-Cola bottles, wood newel cap, and cast metal wings on wood structure

"I was bombarded with television sets and magazines, by the excess of the world. I thought an honest work should incorporate all of those elements." 

Skyway (1964)Oil and silkscreen on canvas

Jasper Johns

American Painter and PrintmakerMovement: Neo-DadaBorn: May 15, 1930 (Augusta, Georgia)

Background

• Studied at the University of South Carolina

(1947).

• Two years military service (1951).

• Johns met Robert Rauschenberg (1953).

• Johns received his first solo exhibition

(1958).

Style

Flags, targets and numbers as main subject of his works– iconic and well known– gives more attention to the process

Uses the idea of artist’s brush strokes

as a form of symbol, manipulate the

meaning of his artworks inspired by Marcel Duchamp

artwork’s meaning to be resolved within

the viewer’s mind

Breaks the art stereotype uses unconventional items that are too

common to notice into his work

shreds of newspaper, found objects,

mass-produced goods

“Flag” (1954-55) Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels

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