Robert Rauschenberg (1925 – 2008) was an American painter who worked, over the span of six decades, in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance. Rauschenberg is renowned for his landmark series of Combines (1954-1964), artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg had a lifelong interest in photography and printmaking and with experimentation into ways the onslaught of images in modern media culture could be transmitted and transformed.