Support
Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
(American, 1925-2008)
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)
ClassificationsContemporary art
Credit LineGift of Forstmann-Leff Associates
Object number79.281G
Terms
- Abstract
On View
Not on viewLabel 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
