Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
His 'combines,' which incorporated objects such as tires, newspaper clippings and stuffed animals, established new directions and prominence for American art. By Christopher Knight Times Art Critic
May 14, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New York's PaceWildenstein Gallery, which represents his work. He was 82.
According to the gallery, Rauschenberg died of heart failure at his home in Captiva, Fla., after a brief illness.
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