Funk art
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Funk art is an American art movement that was a reaction against the nonobjectivity of abstract expressionism. An anti-establishment movement, Funk art brought figuration back as subject matter in pai
Jim Nutt, I'm All A TWit, 1969, acrylic reverse painting on vinyl window shade with enamel on wood Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Portrait of George (Moscone), 1981, by Robert Arneson. glazed ceramic, 94 in × 31 1/2 in × 31 1/2 in.
David Gilhooly
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David Gilhooly was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as w
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…at the University of California, Davis, which was a center for the movement. Students from University of California, Davis, such as Margaret Dodd, David Gilhooly, Victor Cicansky, Chris Unterseher, Peter Vandenberge, and Maija Peeples-Bright continued Arneson's ceramics tradition. In 1967, Robert Arneson drafted…
‘The Windshield Sam Francis’, hand-colored etching and aquatint by David Gilhooly, 2001
Merfrog Family (1978) public fountain by David Gilhooly
Eight Bean Stew (1982) at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC in 2022