Skyway (1964) with its ghostly John F Kennedy among images of cities, the Space Race, and Old Master art - shards and fragments of a conflicted world.
Looking at Rauschenberg you constantly see the most amazing anticipations of art today - he was also a pioneer of performance - and an attitude that's utterly of our time: he believed anything could be art, and he really does make art and life seem continuous. Yet with this bold radicalism there is a serious intellectual reach and a complexity that makes you think of late Cézanne, of Picasso and Braque. Robert Rauschenberg is dead. We've lost one of the greatest artists of the modern world.