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Rauschenberg
[rou-shuhn-burg]
noun
Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
Rauschenberg
/ ˈraʊʃənbɜːɡ /
noun
Robert . 1925–2008, US artist; one of the foremost exponents of pop art
Example Sentences
Rauschenberg had come to ask for a drawing — not as part of a collegial exchange of works, which artists often do between themselves, but to mount a direct challenge by a younger generation to an older, newly established one.
Rauschenberg wanted a De Kooning drawing so he could erase it.
As a gay man — notably, like Rauschenberg — he was socially invisible in a heteronormative society.
One day in 1953, the young and not yet widely known artist Robert Rauschenberg, just 26, knocked on the studio door of Willem de Kooning, 49, a newly successful figure just emerging into the forefront among a growing cohort of celebrated painters in postwar New York.
Since then, an estimated 6.7 million visitors have made their way inside to take in contemporary art by boldface names, among them Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Kara Walker and Mark Bradford.
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