Laughing Vase
Artist: Robert Carston Arneson (American, 1930-1992)
Date: 1974
Dimensions:
18 x 18 x13 in. (45.7 x 45.7 x 33 cm)
Medium: Glazed earthenware
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society
Object number: 1996.9
Label Text:I want to make high art that is funny, outrageous, and also reveals the human condition, which is not always high.
— Robert Arneson
Eyes crinkled and every tuft of beard sprouting aggressively, the vase’s laughing face exudes all the energy of artist Robert Arneson’s earthy sense of humor and zest for life. The vase refers specifically to the long history of head-shaped vessels that began with the ancient Greeks.
— Robert Arneson
Eyes crinkled and every tuft of beard sprouting aggressively, the vase’s laughing face exudes all the energy of artist Robert Arneson’s earthy sense of humor and zest for life. The vase refers specifically to the long history of head-shaped vessels that began with the ancient Greeks.
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