Robert Rauschenberg, The Accident, 1963, lithograph; recipient of the Grand Prix, 5th International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 1963.
The exhibition included fifteen lithographs made between 1962 and 1964. Robert Rauschenberg is considered the most prominent American artist of the early 1960s and the beginner of Pop Art. Already at the start of his artistic path, he decided to work as a reporter “between art and life”, as he himself said. In graphic art, he employed the technique of lithography; he combined found objects, drawing and photography in stroboscopic compositions. The resulting lithographic “collages” opened infinite possibilities of experiencing, but offered no conclusions, for they were rarely narrative.