Robert Arneson
Hello there! I'm Robert Arnson. I'm a bit of an egotist or so my friends say. I enjoy doing strange and new ways of doing ceramics, otherwise known as pottery.
My date of birth is September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992.
My place of birth was Benicia, California. I also died in Benicia of liver cancer at 62. For my edication in went to California College of Arts in Oakland, California, MFA Mills College 1958. My fame is far-reaching, and my works can be found in public and private collections around the world, including the Chicago Art Institute, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art. I was an UC Davis faculty member for four decades, was also at the forefront of a movement that took ceramic art in a new direction. When I came to campus in 1962, ceramic art forms were mainly "art" versions of traditional pottery shapes — pots, vases, plates and tiles. But starting in the 1960s, several other California artists and I abandoned the manufacture of functional wares in favor of using everyday objects to make confrontational — and to some, offensive — statements. The new movement was dubbed "Funk Art," and I'm is considered the "father of the ceramic Funk movement." |
Funk art is an American art movement that was a reaction against the non-objectivity of abstract expressionism. Funk art was my favorite art movement and as i said earlier I'm consitered "the father of the ceramic Funk Movement."
Some of My Freinds
February 1, 1960 - Four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service. This action caused a national campaign, waged by seventy-thousand students, both white and black, over the next eight months, in sit-ins across the nation for Civil Rights.
April 1, 1960 - Tiros I, the first weather satellite, is launched by the United States. Twelve days later, the navigation satellite, Transat 1-b is launched.
April 1, 1960 - The 1960 census includes a United States population of 179,323,175, an 18.5% increase since 1950. For the first time, two states, New York and California have over fifteen million people within their borders. The geographic center of the United States is located six and one half miles northwest of Centralia, Illinois.
April 1, 1960 - Tiros I, the first weather satellite, is launched by the United States. Twelve days later, the navigation satellite, Transat 1-b is launched.
April 1, 1960 - The 1960 census includes a United States population of 179,323,175, an 18.5% increase since 1950. For the first time, two states, New York and California have over fifteen million people within their borders. The geographic center of the United States is located six and one half miles northwest of Centralia, Illinois.