解讀羅森柏格的串連繪畫

Abstract

American artist Robert Rauschenberg has often been quoted by "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two." And he said there is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.”This study is to explore how the concept practiced in his combine paintings. While the art term "combine paintings" generally refers to Rauschenberg's works that incorporates real objects into the painted surface from the middle of fifties to the sixties, but various writers have used the term differently. It is necessary to define the term before the discussion about the combine paintings. The "art/life" concept will be examined through the two aspects of formal elements and the content. Can the objects and imagery in every single combine painting, juxtaposed in random order, be interpreted into an organized content? The study will give a survey of the debate upon the content of the combine paintings and give a conclusion that the theme of "art/life" reveals itself through the formal characters: performance quality, heterogeneity, variety, and inclusion.