Artwork record / rights-aware

Bed

Robert Rauschenberg · 1955

Catalog medium: Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports
Collection: The Museum of Modern Art

Physical record

Scale without reproducing the image

Metric: 191.1 × 80 × 20.3 cm
Approx. imperial: 6 ft 3.2 in × 2 ft 7.5 in × 0 ft 8 in
Width / 170 cm reference: 0.47×
Height / 170 cm reference: 1.12×
Depth / 170 cm reference: 0.12×

Imperial dimensions and 170 cm reference ratios are interface calculations from documented metric dimensions. The diagram uses a bounding-dimension guide only: it does not infer silhouette, occupied volume, mass, or viewing angle.

Image decision: Bundled display blocked by external_reference_only/external_link_only.

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Structured relationships

Process, material, form, ideas

Techniques

No structured techniques linked in the foundation corpus.

Materials

Oil paintmaterial

Structured materials appear only through an explicit mapping relationship in the validated corpus; AEU does not infer normalized materials by parsing the catalog medium text.

Formal properties

Surface relief / heavy impastoformal property
Figuration–abstraction boundaryformal property

Concepts

No structured concepts linked in the foundation corpus.

Claims / interpretation

Evidence with its type exposed

A source interpretation is not silently rewritten as an uncontested fact. Contested positions remain side by side.

critical interpretation

MoMA describes Bed as an early Combine made from literal bedding, with paint handling similar to Pollock action paintings, while Rauschenberg framed his practice as operating between art and life.

Evidence sources (1)

Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955 ↗

Relationship graph

Painting, object, image and figuration after Abstract Expressionism, 1954–1962historical context · contextualizes without causal claim

Documented path / mapping basis exposed

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Object → maker

Robert Rauschenbergartist/date identity lineBasis: Object identity on this record.

Material & process

Oil paintmaterialBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.

Formal & thematic

Surface relief / heavy impastoformal propertyBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
Figuration–abstraction boundaryformal propertyBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.

Exhibition, place & history

Painting, object, image and figuration after Abstract Expressionism, 1954–1962historical context · contextualizes without causal claimBasis: AEU graph edge rendered on this object record.
Place this date on the AEU timeline1955Basis: Object date used for navigation only; not an influence or exhibition claim.

Close Look

Close-looking guideobservation → interpretationBasis: Companion route for this same object record.

Source register

Direct record sources

Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955museum object · authority tier 1 · verified 2026-09-09
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