A combine painting or Combine is an artwork that incorporates elements of both painting and sculpture. Items attached to paintings might include three-dimensional everyday objects such as clothing or furniture, as well as printed matter including photographs or newspaper clippings.
Buksa mi (My Pants), a 1968 Combine by Norwegian artist Bjørn Krogstad
Canyon, 1959 Combine: oil, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed paper, printed reproductions, photograph, wood, paint tube, and mirror on canvas with oil on taxidermied eagle, string, and pillow Robert Rauschenberg 207.6 × 177.8 × 61 cm
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was primarily a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.
Rauschenberg in 1968
Factum I and Factum II (both 1957) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022
Untitled (1963), oil, silkscreen, metal, and plastic on canvas
Riding Bikes (1998) in Berlin