Robert Rauschenberg: A Collision of Worlds Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas, on October 22, 1925, Robert Rauschenberg’s artistic journey was a radical departure from traditional notions of painting and sculpture. His early life, steeped in the fundamentalist Christianity of his parents—a physician father and a homemaker mother—provided an unexpected foundation for his later explorations into the intersection of everyday objects and art. This seemingly disparate background fueled a lifelong fascination with contrasts: the sacred and the profane, order and chaos, high art…