Promise
1968
- Medium
- colour lithograph
- Measurements
- 78.9 × 58.3 cm (image and sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Foster 65
- Edition
- printer's proof, edition of 35
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by Fred Genis at Universal Limited Art Editions, New York
- Accession Number
- P160-1984
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Henry and Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1984
© Robert Rauschenberg/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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In the 1950s and 1960s Robert Rauschenberg and his partner Jasper Johns contributed to a cultural change that saw artists shift their interests from the interior emotion of Abstract Expressionism to mass media in Pop Art. Rauschenberg’s work brought everyday objects and familiar icons into conversation with gestural painting. In Promise he appropriated photographs from the popular press and arranged them in a loose composition, transferring them directly onto the lithographic stone using solvent. Rauschenberg embraced printmaking as a medium that reflected the cheap and bountiful proliferation of images and advertising in postwar America. His use of found images as readymades was influential for other Pop artists.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Concepts and Ideas
- Subjects (specific)
- appropriation (imagery) groups of people montages (visual works) news photographs newspaper clippings