During the 1950s Robert Rauschenberg rose to prominence for his “combine” paintings, which included objects from the “real world” and painted abstractions. Employing an atypical medium, Green Shirt similarly depicts a combination of subjects and objects from ordinary life with references to “high” and folk art traditions. A green shirt, oversized tie and bicycle collaborate with the Rubens-inspired woman at her mirror and small, wandering pigs to blur, and then deconstruct the boundaries of looking at “real art” and experiencing “real life.” Green Shirt is in harmony with his famously quoted objective—“to act in that gap between art and life.”
Details
- Artist Name: Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008)
- Title: Green Shirt
- Date: 1965-67
- Medium: Neon and enameled metal
- Dimensions: 119 x 240 x 10-1/2 in. (302.3 x 609.6 x 26.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of the Artist
- Accession Number: P.1969.141
- Copyright: Art © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Reproduction of this image, including downloading, is prohibited without written authorization from VAGA www.vagarights.com
Object Information
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1969-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena.
Expo '67
- Montreal, United States Pavillion, 1967-04-28 to 1967-10-27
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