Robert Arneson was born in Benicia California and at a young
age he was a cartoonist for the local newspaper. Later in life he went on to
study at California College of the arts and received his MFA in 1958. Robert is
a peculiar artist; he started a movement called funk art. His work interest me
because it’s so different, he creates sculpture made out of ceramics of him. The
majority of the sculptures I found were all of him some of just his head and
other were a full body sculpture. Modeling art is making a model from which a
work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic
material, expression or indication of a solid form. This sculpture is called self-portrait
in bronze. He creates a sculpture of his head and made fifteen different
variation of it. He uses bronze to symbolize durability and he made the faces
look desperate maybe signifying his death was near. He stacks the heads on top
of each other to show all the adversity and challenges he has face throughout
life. Robert Arneson was an unusual man but he started a new wave of art.
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