Tanya from Ruminations
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1999
A photogravure by Robert Rauschenberg that layers fragmented, domestic photographs with painterly washes and drips to treat photographic memory as tactile material.
You’re struck by ghostly, sepia‑toned photo fragments and a lone portrait floating amid soft‑edged stains and ink blots that make the images feel simultaneously present and dissolved.
Rauschenberg blurs photography and painting here, using printmaking to turn found images into collage‑like meditations that helped expand late 20th‑century mixed‑media and print practices.
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 25 3/8 x 39 5/8" (64.5 x 100.7cm); sheet: 27 15/16 x 41 5/8" (71 x 105.7cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Accession
1516.2001
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