Through April 2, the Tate Modern in London is presenting a retrospective of the works of Robert Rauschenberg. Each chapter of the artist’s six-decade career is represented in the show, including loans of major works that rarely travel. Among them are a selection of Rauschenberg’s iconic Combines, hybrids between painting and sculpture, such as Monogram (1955–59) and Bed (1955), pictured below, and Rauschenberg’s signature silkscreen paintings, which were part of an effort to bring politics, mass media imagery and street scenes into his work, notably Retroactive II (1964), which portrays John F. Kennedy, who had recently been assassinated (also below). Later in 2017, the exhibit will move to the Museum of Modern Art in New York (which helped to organize and curate it) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Untitled (Double Rauschenberg) (c. 1950), by Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil. Monoprint: exposed blueprint paper. 209.6 x 92.1 cm. Private collection.
