ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG ENTERS THE LIST AT NUMBER FIVE PRESENTING AN INTERESTING MIDPOINT. HIS PRESENCE ON THE LIST ATTESTS TO HIS ARTISTIC LEGACY, & UNDENIABLE INFLUENCE TODAY. THE MORE YOU LOOK AT THE CONTEMPORARY ART LANDSCAPE, SO MANY ARTISTS ARE STILL RE-HASHING IDEAS HE PROPAGATED OVER 50 YEARS AGO! FROM COMBINES TO ASSEMBLAGE, TO APPROPRIATION, & THE INCORPORATION OF COMMERCIAL PROCESSES IN FINE ART MAKING, HE WAS YEARS AHEAD OF HIS TIME NOT JUST CREATIVELY, BUT HIS SENSE OF CONSTANT EXPLORATION MAKE IT CLEAR WHY HE IS STILL HELD IN SUCH HIGH REGARD TODAY. 
“I USUALLY WORK IN A DIRECTION UNTIL I KNOW HOW TO DO IT, THEN I STOP. AT THE TIME THAT I AM BORED OR UNDERSTAND- I USE THOSE WORDS INTERCHANGEABLY – ANOTHER APPETITE HAS FORMED. A LOT OF PEOPLE TRY TO THINK UP IDEAS. I’M NOT ONE. I’D RATHER ACCEPT THE IRRESISTIBLE POSSIBILITIES OF WHAT I CAN’T IGNORE” x X
A LOT ABOUT INNOVATION IS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO SEE SOMETHING THAT ISN’T CURRENTLY THERE, SOMETIMES BY COMBINING DISPARATE IDEAS, FROM DIVINE INSPIRATION, OR MAYBE FROM A CHEROKEE BIRTHRIGHT? IT IS NO SECRET THAT SOME PEOPLE ACCESS NEW PARADIGMS GENERATIONS BEFORE THEY BECOME ZEITGEIST, IT IS THEIR JOB TO CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO, OFTEN WITH BACKLASH, BUT THIS FRICTION IS INEVITABLE WHEN PRESENTING FORMS PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCUSTOMED TO, & THEIR TASTES HAVE YET TO PROCESS. RAUSCHENBERG IS A TRAILBLAZER & TRUE AMERICAN MASTER #ROB
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