All About Canyon by Robert Rauschenberg

Title of Artwork: “Canyon”

Artwork by Robert Rauschenberg

Year Developed 1959

Summary of Canyon

Pieces of wooden, a pillow, a mirror, and a stuffed bald eagle are just some of the products that make up Canyon, just one of Rauschenberg’s most well known and divisive assemblages.

The eagle, sitting on top rated of a cardboard box and staring at a pillow suspended beneath the assemblage, looks to fly out of the canvas. A portrait of Rauschenberg’s son, strongly delineated in black over a mint inexperienced patch of paint, emerges from the disjointed cacophony of objects.

All About Canyon

To finish his collection, Rauschenberg acquired a taxidermied eagle from fellow artist Sari Dienes, who experienced identified the fowl between the possessions of a a short while ago deceased neighbour who experienced shot it while serving as a person of Teddy Roosevelt’s Tough Riders.

The government has just lately taken concern with the stuffed eagle, inspite of the actuality that in 1988 Rauschenberg filed a notarized take note stating that the chook was killed in advance of the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Defense Act went into outcome. The estate of previous operator Ileana Sonnabend declared Canyon to be worthless in 2007 thanks to the actuality that promoting the assets would violate the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

In 2011, even so, the U.S. authorities rated the work at $15 million, and it also assessed an undervaluation penalty versus Sonnabend’s descendants. When Sonnabend’s estate gave the piece to the Museum of Modern Art, the United States govt abandoned their 40 million greenback furthermore claim versus it.

About the system of numerous years, the eagle grew to become the centre of massive bureaucratic drama, but it also serves as the most effective source of symbolism and imagery in the operate. Critics have identified allusions to just about anything from McCarthyist nationalism to the Greek myth of Ganymede in the taxidermied hen, but Rauschenberg has usually given the viewer complete liberty of interpretation.

Information Citations

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