"During a stay at her family home in Outer Island, Connecticut, in 1949, artist Susan Weil introduced her then-husband Robert Rauschenberg to the practice of making cyanotypes - a method of image-making involving exposing blueprint paper to light, using figures and objects to obscure the light and leave impressions on the paper. During the next few years, the pair continued to work together on blueprint artworks."
"Weil had learned to make cyanotypes as a child with her grandmother who, as a young woman, had made self-portraits with the rolls of blueprint paper in her architect father's office. The tradition was passed down through the family, and Weil and her brother would spend their summers on the island creating blue monochrome vignettes of flowers, shells and other found objects. Years later, when the young married artists spent the summer of 1949 on the island, Rauschenberg was equally captivated by the magical process."
In 1949 on Outer Island, Susan Weil introduced Robert Rauschenberg to cyanotype image-making, creating images by exposing blueprint paper with objects to block light. The pair continued producing blueprint artworks through the early 1950s. Weil first learned cyanotypes from her grandmother, who used rolls of blueprint paper for self-portraits, and Weil and her brother made monochrome vignettes of found objects during island summers. Rauschenberg later became a prominent American artist associated with abstract expressionism and precursors to pop art. Weil, at 95, maintains a prolific career across painting, photography and experimental, dimensional approaches to painting. They met at Académie Julian and were intensely committed to painting.
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