Rauschenberg
Proper noun
Meaning
Rauschenberg (plural Rauschenbergs)
A surname from German.
Examples
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
A dancer performs a work by Maria Hassabi in the Walker gallery (at left) near a stage set, originally designed by Robert Rauschenberg.
In New York City during the mid-1950s Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created works of art that at first seemed to be continuations of Abstract expressionist painting.
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner identify Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns as part of the transitional phase, influenced by Duchamp, between Modernism and Postmodernism.
In 1958, gallery owner Leo Castelli discovered Johns while visiting Rauschenberg 's studio.