{"data":{"id":"8","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":8,"topgoose_id":4923,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":8,"title":"Yoicks","display_artist_text":"Robert Rauschenberg","display_date":"1954","accession_number":"71.210","dimensions":"Overall: 96 1/8 × 72 1/16 in. (244.2 × 183 cm)","medium":"Enamel and oil on collaged polyester, found paper, and cotton on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of the artist","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Rauschenberg, \u003cem\u003eYoicks\u003c/em\u003e, 1954. Enamel and oil on collaged polyester, found paper, and cotton on canvas, overall: 96 1/8 × 72 1/16 in. (244.2 × 183 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 71.210. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Rauschenberg’s embrace of everyday life—what critic Brian O’Doherty described as the artist’s “vernacular glance”—began with paintings such as \u003ci\u003eYoicks\u003c/i\u003e, which included fabrics, newspaper, and found objects. The “combine paintings,” as Rasuchenberg called these hybrid painting-sculptures, fused the improvisatory brushwork of Abstract Expressionism with a proliferation of collaged elements. \u003ci\u003eYoicks\u003c/i\u003e, one of Rauschenberg’s first paintings to incorporate fabric, contains alternating strips of the readymade polka-dotted material and bands of red and yellow dripped paint. With its inclusion of cartoons and a title derived from a comic strip exclamation, this work is whimsical and exuberant, a departure from the series of monochromatic paintings that had occupied the artist during the early 1950s.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Bright abstract painting with dripping red and yellow horizontal stripes and green polka dots.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:55:05.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:49.435-05:00","images":[{"id":91595,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/8/71_210_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1074","type":"artist"}]}}}}