Support
Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
(American, 1925-2008)
CultureAmerican
Date1973
MediumScreenprint
Dimensions30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 42 x 32 x 2 1/4 in. (106.7 x 81.3 x 5.7 cm)
Overall, Frame: 42 x 32 x 2 1/4 in. (106.7 x 81.3 x 5.7 cm)
PortfolioEdition 83/250
Credit LineGift of Forstmann-Leff Associates
Object number79.281G
Not on view
Label TextLeft to Right:
Robert Rauschenberg
American (1925–2008)
Support, 1973
Silk screen
Gift of Forstmann-Leff Associates 79.218g
1977 Presidential Inauguration from Inaugural Impressions, 1977
Lithograph
Gift from Thomas Adamson IV 0.3996
From his early combine paintings to his later photographic prints, Robert Rauschenberg’s work has consistently called into question the nature of representation. Sometimes called Neo-Dada or Assemblage, his combines, as seen in the Chrysler’s Wooden Gallop, literally combined three-dimensional objects with the painting’s flat picture plane. In Rauschenberg’s hands, painting became a window to the disorganized world of everyday materials, such as a deflated yellow life raft or a rusty coke can, as fragments of our modern civilization.
In the 1960s, Rauschenberg turned to screen printing as his primary medium, translating his affinity for unplanned juxtapositions of the everyday into a photographic realm. The shift in technique is widely acknowledged to be due to the pressures of the media. Rauschenberg comments: “I was bombarded with TV sets and magazines by the excess of the world. I thought an honest work should incorporate all these elements, which were and are a reality.” Culled from magazines and newspapers, the divergent imagery in his silk screens forces us to scan the surface of the work, an action that corresponds to the way we interact with the television, newspapers, and the internet.
Robert Rauschenberg
American (1925–2008)
Wooden Gallop, 1962
Mixed media on plywood
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.693
Exhibition History"Remix: A Fresh Look At Our Modern And Contemporary Art Collections," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, November 2, 2011 - March 17, 2012.
Robert Rauschenberg
