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We begin the year again with Pop Art, this time by the hand of the American artist Robert Rauschenberg, born in Texas in 1925, has German family and Cherokee, from a young age went to Paris, and decided to study plastic arts, once completed his studies returns to the United States.

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One of his major influences was his masters of painting in the school of art Black mountain in North Carolina, the master was involved with the Bauhaus movement, at that time would meet Jasper Johns and John Cage with whom he would maintain a long friendship.

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Like most of these Pop Art artists, Robert was influenced by abstract expressionism. But beginning in the 1950s, he began his transformation and development of his art for which he was recognized. One of his first studies was combine-paintings. It was not easy to compose these works based on everyday objects, so it was very difficult to choose a pair of socks or underwear with materials such as nails, wood, canvas. With this he became a cult towards materials from the era of consumerism.

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I don't know why the majority of critics usually call many of the pop artists of the 70's neo-Dadaism, I think that as all art evolves and more if you use elements characteristic of an era, for example the Dada has to do with a rebellion born by the warlike conflicts in Europe and by being tired of the principles based on the schools of beautiful art in Europe. Bone bears little relation to the Pop Art of the 70s, although the materials resemble each other.

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So Rauschenberg, began to use the arsenal of iconography to work on his works, could be as simple as the figure of Kennedy or a bottle of coke.

In 1953, he was on tour exhibiting in several European cities and in Africa, where they could appreciate the versatility of the artist incorporating photographs, nails, wood, canvas, serigraphy, thus making the works faster to make and were much cheaper.

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in 1964, the Grand Prix of the Venice Biennale. He also founded experiments in art and technology, something very advanced for the time, was based on dialogue with other artists on research and production of works with new materials with a scientific and technological content which undoubtedly gave much to talk about in his days, and attracted many artists and scientists.

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He was an integral artist, doing painting, sculpture, photography, engraving, which gave him the prestige of winning the Leonardo da Vinci World Prize for the Arts in 1995. And it is that it is incredible artist I consecrate more than 40 years of his life insistently working in the art.

In 2008 he dies leaving an invaluable legacy to the artistic world.

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Interesting the life of each one of the pop artists, for me the most current art until our days, they continue using element of the culture of masses to submit them to aesthetic and artistic treatments, managing to give clear and concise messages, a radiography that will remain for the next generation that

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