Robert Arneson

Robert Arneson was a famous sculptor and ceramicist who was considered to be the father of Funk Art.  He was born on September 4, 1930, in California.  He studied at the California College of the Arts.  Later in his life, he began working at UC Davis as a professor of ceramics, and he worked there for three decades.  Arneson is best known for his Egghead series which is composed of odd and funny sculptures of faces that he installed around the UC Davis campus.  His art can be found in many different museums around the US including the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many more.

I chose this piece because I thought it was interesting.  It looks like he is talking on the phone but it also reminds me of a cyclops because of what is over his one eye.