Robert Arneson

Arneson was born in California He graduated from Benicia High School and spent much of his early life as a cartoonist for a local paper.  During the start of the 1960s, Arneson and several other California artists began to abandon the traditional manufacture of functional ceramic objects and instead began to make nonfunctional sculptures that made confrontational statements. The new movement was dubbed  Funk Art,  and Arneson is considered the father of the ceramic Funk Movement