This is an artwork that he did in (1963).
As you can see he used screen-print for his work. In my opinion, the collage
structure was affective as all of his pictures where everywhere which made an
all-over composition; this was effective as you could focus onto one page
whilst seeing all the composition he wanted to fit into one piece of artwork.
This then gave the viewers understanding on how the artist felt and what he was
trying to show. The pictures that where laid out everywhere tells us how it was
back in 1930’s and onwards because it reflects on the chaos that happened and
how it was a sad place filled of fear, agony and war.The artist used a lot of
dark colours and primary and secondary colours; the red symbolised danger
whilst the green was the camouflage wear for the army. The main colours were
red, green and white which were all negative colours to present how bad it was
in that year, for example you have Martin Luther king who died in that time
period. He also uses colour for as symbols for example he has a singer in the
colour red, the colour red could represent death, blood or violence. He then
has Neil Armstrong; this was the only bright picture you could see because the
colour was white. The fact that the he uses Armstrong in his work tells us that
there were still some positive things happening in America, Armstrong’s image
is large to show the good side of America and not only all the cons. Niels
picture was important because all the other people shown in his work died a
long time ago but he died recently in 2012, this shows us that the artist is
trying to keep his artwork positive. The texture of his artwork looks vintage
which gives the audience the idea of the context. The tone used was thick
strokes.This art work was made in 1964; the artist who created this is called
Robert Rauschenberg. Robert was born in Texas, United States and he died in
2008. In all of his art works he normally uses collage; what I like about his
art is that he leaves the viewers to interpret his art work. He believed that
painting is related to “both art and life.” His art mainly shows the past and
the present, he seems to make the viewers surrounded by the world and the
history.
He shows the negative things and the
positive things that happened in the past but there are more negative views in
his paintings. This could relate to the things that happened to him in the
past, I know this because Martin Luther king died in 1964 and Robert
Rauschenberg was there in that year. It could also relate to the fact that maybe
a family member died in that year, bringing Robert horrible memories from the
past than good.His work is based on America, meaning that he wanted his art
work to show him and what he passed through in his background. His work is
about the things that he witnessed and what happened in those years that he
spent living. In this art work he uses famous people, because everyone will
then understand what his artwork is about, for instant everyone knows Martin
Luther King or Armstrong; they will then be able to translate his work Robert
Rauschenberg is not trying to present the negative occurrences in America, on
the other hand he is trying to show us what makes America and what we should
not forget.
This artwork is called Retroactive. This
changed the way I saw his work as he was not just trying to show where he came
from, he was also trying to show us the retroactive. The definition of
Retroactive is “something that is happening now that affects the past.” This
changed my view of his artwork because in the same way he is trying to show the
improvements from the past. Coloured people did not live in harmony with the
white people in the past (in America) but now they live together as one in the
present. This then shows the retroactive.
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