Robert was born an American and rose as an abstract artist , but then came to be known as a pop artist. He is well known for his "Combines" pieces in the 1950's in which non-traditional materials and were used and put together in inovative ways. He was a painter and a sculpture, but his Combine pieces combined both of the styles of art. He also used photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance.
He was born as Milton Ernest Raushenberg. His father was German and part Cherokee and his mother was of Anglo-Saxon decent. HIs family was Christian and he studied at the Kansas State Art Institute and he later studied art at the Juilan Academy in Paris. He died on May 12, 2008 of heart failure.
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