Architecture from Tribute 21
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1994
An offset lithograph in which Rauschenberg layers photographic fragments and painterly blue fields to mirror and fracture a pyramidal architectural motif, testing how mechanical reproduction can carry personal and historical memory.
At a glance you see two sandy pyramids—one inverted—set against luminous, mottled blue planes, their grainy photographic texture and a faint horizon split and stacked to make a weathered, collage-like X across the sheet.
The print exemplifies Rauschenberg’s late practice of using industrial print processes and found imagery to blur painting and photography, extending Pop-era strategies into collaborative, layered prints that question originality and the circulation of images.
Medium
One from a portfolio of 22 offset lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 40 7/8 × 27" (103.8 × 68.6 cm); sheet: 40 7/8 × 27 1/16" (103.8 × 68.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the Felissimo Corporation
Accession
737.1995.22
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