ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG "HORN (STONED MOON)" LITHO, 1969Robert Rauschenberg (1925 2008) is revered as one of the most innovative American Pop artists. More avant garde than Warhol and more audacious than Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg worked experimentally with many mediums over the span of six decades, striving to create boundary pushing, curious, and thought provoking pieces. Overlay, collage and anarchic juxtaposition of images is a constant element in his practice. Rauschenberg studied at Black Mountain

lemon yellow

amplifying the profound and mythical force that brings forth life

"Shipbreaking #2 Field Proof" (from the Pentimento project)

and comforts

Noland's diagonal bands

Click here to see another early figurative drawing by Louise Nevelson from the 1930's

there was consistently a playful exploration of form and line work

Francis moved to Paris which would serve a crucial role in helping develop his aesthetic language

and yellows are applied with slight transparency

Featuring a combination of splatters and bimorphic forms executed in primary colours

"Vale Variations #144"

Interestingly it recalls some of Robert Motherwell's prints and collages from the late 1970's and 1980's