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Birth
1930 (Benicia, California)
Death
1992
Lived/Active
California
Self portrait
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Often Known For
funk ceramic pop images
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California Painters
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Born in Benicia, California, Robert Arneson almost singlehandedly
transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium. In the
early 1960s, he became a member of the Funk Art movement, a California
style of Pop-Art focusing on absurd images of everyday objects.
In the 1970s, he began using humorous portraits as subjects, and his
memorial portrait of San Francisco's assassinated Mayor George Moscone
was very controversial because it included references to the assassin.
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