
More Distant Visible Part of the Sea
1979
This 1979 screenprint by Robert Rauschenberg exemplifies his signature technique of layering appropriated imagery, here saturated in a commanding field of red that unifies a catalog page of scissors with photographic transfers including a portrait and landscape fragments. The work belongs to his mature print practice, where he pushed the boundaries of lithography and screenprinting to achieve the visual density of his celebrated Combines. Signed and numbered from an edition of 100, this piece demonstrates Rauschenberg's enduring interest in the poetics of everyday objects and the slippage between commercial and fine art imagery, making it a highly representative example of his post-Pop graphic output.
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- Screenprint
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- Edition
- 15 of 100
- Signed
- Yes
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Andy Warhol
American · b. 1928

Warhol similarly employed screenprinting to layer appropriated commercial and photographic imagery, often saturating compositions in bold monochromatic color fields as seen in this red dominated Rauschenberg print. Both artists treated the silkscreen medium as a vehicle for blending consumer catalog imagery with portrait photography in a unified visual field.

Jasper Johns
American · b. 1930

Johns shared Rauschenberg's commitment to layering found imagery and everyday objects within technically complex printmaking, producing works of similar visual density that blur boundaries between abstraction and recognizable subject matter. His mature print practice, like this screenprint, treats familiar objects as raw material for richly unified compositional fields.

James Rosenquist
American · b. 1933

Rosenquist consistently collaged fragmented photographic and catalog imagery drawn from consumer culture into bold monochromatic or color saturated compositions, mirroring the appropriation strategy and visual density seen in this red screenprint. His large scale prints similarly juxtapose portrait fragments with commercial object imagery to create disorienting unified surfaces.

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