Research Presentation Summary:

Robert Rauschenberg was an American Artist of the twentieth century. He made people know that even though he might have a learning disability like dyslexia, that he was still able to develop ideas and be creative. He would create a combination of abstract expressionism and pop art by using items that surrounded him everyday. What dyslexia is it’s a neurological based learning disability and every person is different so they don’t all have the same symptoms. For instance, people may have difficulty with trying to recognize words or accurately spell them. They can also struggle with reading comprehension or visual processing. Robert stated he had difficulty with language, both reading and writing. Since it also affects the way we see things, his visual processing system was complex around his everyday life allowing him to create art with his perspective.

He created many works like his White Painting series, that allowed for the audience to see what was reflected from their environment, they heard their surroundings this way. Robert was fascinated by that, he ended up creating Red Painting series, Black painting series and Gold Painting series. He created other pieces in regards to his visual perception of his everyday life. He practiced his techniques with unique materials. There is a lot of overlap between materials because that is how he saw things, it was not separate. One object was not the object itself but also an object that was connected to its environment. Examples of these pieces included Bed, Odalisk, and Monogram which is in his studio included in the image that was taken above.

Rauschenberg created more pieces that involved how he expressed the way he saw language. This included placing images or words sideways, overlapping objects and the environment, and some letters were involved but did not make up a word. These were portrayed in Factum I, Hazard, and Anagram series (shown in the images on the left side, going from left to right). Works of Rauschenberg were his orientation and view of life, and he was not the only artist who was like this. There were many more diverse artists who have physiological conditions. For instance, Pablo Picasso. Both Robert and Picasso had dyslexia and this shaped the way they saw their surroundings. That was portrayed in their works, Interview by Robert and Still-life with Chair Caning by Picasso.

Link to Presentation PDF: ARS 390- PechaKucha