3. Robert Rauschenberg
• 1925 - 2008
• American mixed-media
artist
• Pop Art period
• Created and coined
“combines”
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4. Combines
• Hybrid of painting and sculpture
• Incorporates everyday objects
• Challenges painting as only a
2-dimensional exercise
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5. Screenprinting
• Printing technique using woven
mesh to create an ink stencil image
• Allows for mass-produced images
• Transfer images from one surface
to the next easily
• Became popular in the 1960s
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6. Pop Art
• Art movement that emerged in the
1950s and 1960s
• Challenged traditional notions of
fine art
• Imagery and subjects from popular
culture
• Hybridized
painting, sculpture, collage and
other mediums
• Explored notions of mass-
producing culture, commodity and
advertising
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7. Modern Art vs. Pop Art
Pop art denies an expression of emotion and
showing the obvious hand of the artist
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8. Junk Art and Found objects
• Art created from non-traditional
objects found in common life that
do not serve an artistic function
• Started with Marcel Duchamp’s
ready-mades
• Interest in everyday , consumer life
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