2024年11月18日 · For over 30 years, the Egghead sculptures at UC Davis have elicited joy, protest and conversation. They’re also a fascinating entry point into the broader story of art in California and here at UC Davis.

2024年3月13日 · His instantly recognizable Egghead sculptures dot the campus. But the man behind the art is known for much more than a few bald heads. Robert Arneson, a UC Davis faculty member for four decades, was also at the forefront of a …

1994年10月14日 · Arneson, who taught in the campus's art department for nearly 30 years, is widely credited with elevating ceramic sculpture as a serious art form and inspiring the funk art movement. What: Like most college campuses, UC Davis has an abundance of "eggheads" -- the slang name for intellectuals.

2024年4月11日 · The rain just rolled off the shells of members of the campus community Thursday (April 4) and didn’t stop them from gathering to celebrate some of UC Davis’ most iconic public art: Robert Arneson’s Eggheads. The sculptures, the last of which was installed 30 years ago this year, are being commemorated with events marking 2024 as the Year ...

The Egghead Series was the first public artwork commissioned specifically for the UC Davis campus. Arneson put a great deal of thought into where each piece would go and how it would interact with its surroundings.

2011年3月23日 · The Eggheads are a series of five ceramic sculptures (with seven total eggheads) by artist Robert Arneson scattered around University of California, Davis' campus. Each statue was created to...

2024年5月30日 · Start with a visit to Hatched: The Making of Robert Arneson’s Eggheads, our pop-up display of Egghead maquettes in the museum lobby, and then visit the five Egghead locations across campus. You’ll hear Egghead lore and learn about how and why Arneson created these iconic sculptures and how we care for them today.

The Eggheads are one of several public Campus Art pieces. Commissioned from Robert Arneson in 1989, The Egghead Series is one of the most memorable parts of the Davis campus. 7 of these white, smooth eggheads are scattered about the campus.

2024年12月18日 · This sculpture, called Bookhead, is part of the Egghead sculpture series, which consists of five sculpted heads scattered throughout campus. Each Egghead is unique in its posing and facial expression, but all reflect the powerful influence that the world, politics, and UC Davis had on the art of ceramics professor Robert Arneson .

2016年3月23日 · Arneson’s sculptures epitomized the 1960s and 1970s Bay Area Funk art movement. Fusing offbeat humor and irreverence with Pop-inspired subject matter, he used everyday objects to create biting satire. In The Egghead Series, created by Arneson specifically for UC Davis, the fun is to figure out for yourself what the artist was saying about life.