Red Grooms rejected the abstract painting style that was emerging during the 1950’s in favor of more figurative work that often captures the humor of everyday life in both painting and sculpture.  Bedtime for Rauschenberg is one of Grooms’s works that takes other artists as their subjects.  Robert Rauschenberg is an artist best known for his “combines”, mixtures of painting, sculpture, and found objects.  Here Grooms has placed Rauschenberg on top of one of the most famous of these combines, Bed (1955).  Grooms both honors the creativity of his fellow artist and pokes fun at the idea of the laid-back genius.