Some of the early artists that shaped this type of art were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain and Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg among others in America. Robert Rauschenberg was a renowned painter and graphic artist whose early work foresaw the pop art movement. Rauschenberg was known for his “combines” created during the 1950s where nontraditional materials and objects are creatively combined. He was a painter and sculptor, so these pieces are a combination of both techniques. A combine painting is a piece of art where Rauschenberg incorporates various objects to a painted canvas. This then is a hybrid between painting and...
Some of the early artists that shaped this type of art were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain and Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg among others in America. Robert Rauschenberg was a renowned painter and graphic artist whose early work foresaw the pop art movement. Rauschenberg was known for his “combines” created during the 1950s where nontraditional materials and objects are creatively combined. He was a painter and sculptor, so these pieces are a combination of both techniques. A combine painting is a piece of art where Rauschenberg incorporates various objects to a painted canvas. This then is a hybrid between painting and sculpture. Items were used were photographs, newspaper cuttings, three-dimensional objects.
Street signs and car tires are the items Rauschenberg put into his work. The use of which scandalized the art world during the 1950s but his influence is still felt today with his signature piece of art, Bed, A bedspread splattered with brush marks reminiscent of Pollack. The world was given “soiled sheets “50 years before Tracey Emin gave us, My Bed in 1998,
Andy Warhol is seen as the person who shattered the glass ceiling between popular and high art, Rauschenberg was actually they’re a decade before. Warhol concentrated on single images produced in one medium, Just like Jasper Johns, who was famous for “American flag” created in 1954. An iconic example of Andy Warhol art is taken from a popular brand “Campbell’s soup cans” created in 1962 using complimentary colors the whole series of vast pieces full of vibrant colors, inspired by the consumerism of the American advertising industry. The ordinary soup tin’s that were easily recognized brought art to the common man. He chose to create marvelous creations using attractive colors influenced by Hollywood and comic books of the time. To me, the work of Warhol is produced by a happy man despite his past and reality of life.