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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
born 1925
  
For more than fifty years, American artist Robert Rauschenberg has created art using both traditional and nontraditional materials—often in combination. To understand how he worked, ARTnews sent a reporter in 1962 to meet Rauschenberg at his studio. There the thirty-seven-year-old artist was at the beginning of a "combine-painting" that he ultimately titled Inside-Out. Bringing together such items as a mirror, embossed tin, and a tricycle wheel and assembling them on a wood structure mounted on four casters, Rauschenberg created a freestanding sculpture from trash found in his lower Manhattan neighborhood. While working on Inside-Out, Rauschenberg took this photograph by aiming his camera at the mirror in the piece. Like so much of his work, Inside-Out creates a visual situation that implicates the viewer in the object itself.
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