★Robert Rauschenberg
(October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.
Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.
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Hoarfrost Editions, 1974
1974
Hoarfrost is a kind of lacy film made up of minute, needle-like ice crystals. It is a fleeting phenomenon, occurring at night when dew freezes and melting quickly when the sun rises. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008) evoked hoarfrost’s transience and gauzy delicacy by printing illustrations, comics, advertisements, and news stories on overlapping panels of diaphanous and sensuous fabrics, such as silk, satin, taffeta, and muslin. The Hoarfrosts, hung loosely, ripple and rustle in air currents stirred by gallery visitors. The effect is alluded to in the prints’ lighter-than-air imagery—hot air balloons, a hang-glider, a propeller airplane, a cliff diver suspended mid-plunge. Rauschenberg sought to blur the distinction between art and life, declaring, “I think a picture is more like the real world when it’s made out of the real world.” The newsprint in the series was gathered from September 1974 issues of the Los Angeles Times, linking each of the Hoarfrost Editions to a specific date and place in the real world. But, shadowy and blurred, veiled and spectral, the Hoarfrosts convey this link as tantalizingly elusive, as ephemeral as the series’s frosty and transient namesake.
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