Collection connections
Picasso
223.2019.a-b | Collection highlight |
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Robert Rauschenberg, et al.
Dylaby 1962
Assemblage was invented by Picasso and Georges Braque in 1912, and it was reinvented by Rauschenberg between 1954 and 1964 with his ‘combines’. Where Picasso layered pieces of wood or sheet metal together to suggest abstracted figures or still-lifes, Rauschenberg’s assemblages of the 1950s re-presented found objects in their entirety in new and surprising contexts – much like Picasso’s witty combination in 1942 of a bicycle seat and handle bars to suggest a bull’s head. Dylaby is one of Rauschenberg’s last ‘combines’. The American artist Jasper Johns famously referred to Rauschenberg as the most inventive modern artist since Picasso.