Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Untitled [assemblage]
Image View:
Detail, part of license plate and collaged papers
Creator:
Robert Rauschenberg (American painter, 1925-2008)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 1999.011
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
1962 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
assemblage (sculpture)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint; printed paper; fabric; metal on canvas
Technique:
collage (technique); construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
95.89 cm (height) x 127 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); found objects; collage; assemblage
Description:
"I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out of the real world," Robert Rauschenberg once said. In the mid-1950s, true to this sentiment, he devised a genre of works he called "combines", wall-mounted and freestanding hybrids of painting and assemblage. Affixed to the canvas is metal ductwork, the wired corner of a 1961 New York license plate, cloth, and printed paper. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RAUSCHEN-CA-U-A0 2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Untitled [assemblage]