Known for his ability of collected “garbage” and manipulating them to create art, Rauschenberg uses a variety of mixed mediums to create masterpieces. The iconographic pin up girls are used to present one with a more modernized version of a Harem girl juxtaposed with an image of a male chicken symbolizing gender roles in American society in the early 50′s.
(oil paint, watercolor, crayon, pastel, paper, fabric, photographs, printed reproductions, miniature blueprint, newspaper, metal, glass, dried grass, steel wool, a pillow, a wooden post and lamps on a wooden structure mounted on four casters and topped by a stuffed rooster. )
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