Born on October 22nd 1925 in the oil-refining city of Port Arthur, Texas ne?â?¿ Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, he later renamed himself Robert after his Grandfather. Rauschenbergs father was one of the many blue coloured workers in the oil refineries whilst his mother worked as a telephone operator. He first studied art during his final years at high school but this was quickly cut short when in 1943 he entered the local University of Texas to study Physics only to be expelled in his first year due to learning difficulties, dyslexia, which was then not recognised and so from there he...
that would have been forcing itself everyday into millions of American households, as Rauschenberg quoted they were being "bombarded with TV sets and magazines." Almanac is just one glimpse of the Western world during a rapidly technologically changing period, when art forms and their acceptability were being rethought. It is one of the many 'combines' that Rauschenburg created during his and Jasper Johns fantastically influential period on the booming New York art world of the mid 20th Century. Arresting images from the everyday and making a "commentary on contemporary society using the very images that helped to create that society"