Robert Rauschenberg, Alchemist of the Mundane From: The Washington Post | Date: May 14, 2008| Author: Blake Gopnik - Washington Post Staff Writer | Copyright 2008 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Robert Rauschenberg, the 82-year-old American master who died Monday, made some of the most influential art of the past 50 years. But not all of his influence comes from the objects that he is best known for.

Those most famous creations would be his "Combines" -- giant collages of found objects that hover somewhere between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg began to make those in 1954, and they soon came to stand as his signature works.

In 2006, the Metropolitan Museum in Ne...

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