Birthday Booster


Test Stone 1, from the series "I would like my pictures to be able to be taken apart as easily as they're put together—so you can recognize an object when you're looking at it."—Robert Rauschenberg

What images can you recognize in this lithograph by Rauschenberg? If you need to see an enlargement, click on the image.

Meanwhile, wish the artist a happy birthday! He was born in Texas on this day in 1925. Rauschenberg is an extremely influential artist whose complex assemblages and other multimedia works reflect his intention to "act in the gap between life and art."

Pictured: Robert Rauschenberg, born 1925, Test Stone 1, from the series "Booster and Seven Studies", 1967, lithograph on paper, 20 1/16 x 14 13/16 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.