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Examples of interdisciplinary synthesis can be found among combine paintings, works by Fluxus artists, conceptual art, earth art, environment art, and performance art, among many others. New media is perhaps the latest such example.

Between them, they opened up a whole range of new subject matter: Johns, with his paintings of flags, targets and numbers, as well as his sculptures of objects like beer cans; Rauschenberg, with his collage and assemblage art, and "combine paintings" ...

Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-), Bed, 1955, combine painting: oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 6 feet 3 1/4 inches x 31 1/2 inches x 8 inches (191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY. See textile.

The ‘combine paintings' of Rauschenberg, for example, fall awkwardly between the two, being essentially planar but with often extensive protrusions of objects.

See also: Painting, Movement, Plaster, Visual art, Roman

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