Rauschenberg's combines often incorporated castoff objects like tires, flatware or furniture along with painting.
When Twain told his daughters bedtime stories, he often incorporated household objects or magazine illustrations in the narrative.
The two men gleefully incorporated everyday objects, sounds and movements, and introduced elements of chance – throwing coins or consulting the I Ching – to shape their compositions.
Often depicted from a bird's-eye view, it incorporated pop objects like candy bars or alluded to scenes from his favorite films.
The combines, which are among the artist's most popular works, often incorporated castoff objects like tires, flatware or furniture along with painting.
Togetherness Breaking down the barriers between painting and sculpture beginning in the 1950's, Robert Rauschenberg incorporated everyday objects like Coca-Cola bottles, newspaper clippings and photographs in his art.
He became friends with Mr. Purifoy, who, trained as a social worker, encouraged him to shift from painting to assemblage that incorporated ordinary objects and materials, things that people who lived in South Central and Watts, and who didn't go to art museums, would recognize.
With these exhibitions Ms. Bove is also branching out from the scholarly eclecticism of her earlier artworks, which incorporated found objects like books and crystals, into a more elemental kind of abstract sculpture that at times evokes Richard Serra, Franz West and Mark di Suvero.
In addition to "Flag" the May sale will include "Studio Painting," 1960-61, ofe of Rauschenberg's Combines, a term he coined for works in which he incorporated castoff objects like rubber tires, flatware or furniture; a Picasso painting, "Femme et Fillettes" ("Woman and Children") from 1961; and Lichtenstein's "Girl in Water," a collage and ink cartoon image from 1965.
