"Il Tatto" by Robert Rauschenberg.

- Historical lithograph hand signed by the artist lower right
- Year: 1974
- Size: 30 x 23cm
- Numbered on the back: 1727
- Dry stamp lower left

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Representative work by Rauschenberg.

Exponent of Neo-Dadaism and pop art, in the 1950s Rauschenberg made his first combines paintings, works in which the presence of the object became the central point of his research. Such experiences made his art the most significant example of what is called the American New-Dada. Against the formal finiteness of the commodified object of pop art, R. proposed the lived and discarded object, old junk that has no place in the world of consumption, as an interpretative vehicle, in an ironic and Dadaist key, of reality. Hence the provocative aspect of his Combines: Allegory's torn umbrella (1959-60); the chair applied against the painting by Pilgrim (1960), the stuffed goat by Monogramma (1959). From these researches he found his placement on a different level but parallel to that of Pop art. Once the traditional relationship with painting was broken, it was re-proposed through a violent ability to personalize and invent one's own expressive tools, through a violent and sensitive, aggressive and introspective painting.