Robert Watts (artist)

Robert Watts ( born June 14, 1923 in Burlington, Iowa, † September 2, 1988 in Bangor, Pennsylvania) was an American artist and sculptor.

Biography

After studying engineering sciences from 1941 to 1944 Watts is turned to the arts and studied from 1946 to 1948 at the Art Students League and in 1951 at Columbia University in New York.

After completing his studies, he held several professorships as a professor of film and mixed media, including at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (New Jersey).

His early works of the 1940s are dominated by Abstract Expressionism and Cubism. In 1958 he experimented with new forms of art, such as Fluxus actions or together with Allan Kaprow actions of Kinetic Art and the Environment - culture. He also was interested in forms of happening art and mixed media and general forms of electronic and acoustic art.

In 1972, Robert Watts participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department of Individual mythologies.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today. Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (Material), Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel 1972.
• Documenta Archive (ed.): Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive 1972 to documenta Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3- 7757-1121 -X..