Monogram

E211784

Monogram is a famous mixed-media artwork by Robert Rauschenberg featuring a taxidermied goat encircled by a tire, emblematic of his groundbreaking “combine” paintings that merge painting and sculpture.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Monogram canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
combine painting
mixed-media artwork
artForm combine
artist Robert Rauschenberg
artisticIntent to collapse distinctions between painting and sculpture
to incorporate everyday objects into art
artisticPeriod 20th-century art
postwar art
associatedWith Robert Rauschenberg combines
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Robert Rauschenberg
creatorNationality American
depicts goat
tire
genre assemblage art
hasArtisticMovement Neo-Dada
hasArtisticStyle experimental
mixed-media
three-dimensional
hasComponent goat encircled by a tire
painterly surface
three-dimensional objects
hasCulturalSignificance iconic example of Rauschenberg’s combines
important in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop and Conceptual art
key work in the development of Neo-Dada
hasSubjectMatter animal
goat
hasTitleLanguage English
inception 1950s
influenced contemporary mixed-media practices
later assemblage artists
languageOfWork none
movement Neo-Dada
notableFor challenging boundaries between art and life
merging painting and sculpture
pioneering combine technique
use of everyday objects in fine art
usesMaterial automobile tire
canvas
collage elements
oil paint
taxidermied goat

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Combines notableWork Monogram