RIP, Robert Rauschenberg

[shecky]

Robert Rauschenberg died monday

one of my heros. alas.

A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.

Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he thereby helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.

 

[megfilmworks]

Wow, I hadn't heard. May he rest in peace. His work will live on forever.

 

[speakerwizard]

one of my favorite artists, kinda like a human photoshop composer.