Robert Rauschenberg is an artist that is unlike the other artists that I have read about so far. His life was much different. It seems that he lived a very normal life, he liked to draw but never thought anything of it. He was in the Navy and that's where he discovered that he was talented. He seemed to live a more sheltered lifestyle than the other artists that I have read about in the reader so far. I found that very endearing and almost more of a pure art than some other artists. I like his style. It is a bit disorganized and crazy but that's how he wants it to be. He has a very unique style and I love the collages that he did. The collage above is amazing. It embodies a whole movement of the 60's and what that decade meant. It was so influential and I think that this work embodies that perfectly. His piece with the goat is very interesting and visually engaging. I think the fact that he finds things that he likes or ideas that just seem good to him and goes for it and just does them. He seems to take chances and that is something that not all artists want to do, but it can be a very effective mechanism for creation. I think that he furthered the conception that art doesn't have to be beautiful to be powerful. The story in the reader where an old lady comes up to him and comments that his work was ugly and how she didn't understand the process that he went through while creating it was a perfect example of the concept that perspective is the key to looking at art and you sometimes have to suspend your preconceptions in order to understand someone else's work.
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