HE WAS NEVER QUITE "POP"... PERHAPS, PROTO-POP...?
AND NOT QUITE IN THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST GROUP.
I'VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED RAUSCHENBERG TO BE LIKE JOSEPH CORNELL --WITH HIS COLLAGED BOXES... UNIQUE AND HARD TO IMITATE. PERHAPS A BIT "POST-SURREALIST" "POST-DADA"... REMEMBER THIS WAS ALL HAPPENING FAIRLY EARLY...LATE 40'S TO MID 50'S...
RAUSCHENBERG WAS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THESE TWO GREAT AMERICAN POST-WAR ART MOVEMENTS...THE EXPRESSIONISM OF POLLACK, KLINE, ETAL...AND THE POP ARTISTS YET TO COME.
