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Robert Watts (artist)
Robert Watts was an American artist best known for his work as a member of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus. Born in Burlington, Iowa June 14, 1923,〔() Robert Watts on Fluxus Artpool〕〔(Cybermuse )〕 he became Professor of Art at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1953, a post he kept until 1984. In the 1950s, he was in close contact with other teachers at Rutgers including Allan Kaprow, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein. This has led some critics to claim that pop art and conceptual art began at Rutgers.〔(Sid Sachs )〕〔(Corinne Robins )〕
He organised the proto-fluxus ''Yam Festival'', May 1963 with George Brecht, and was one of the main protagonists, along with George Maciunas, in turning SoHo, New York, into an artist's quarter. He died Friday September 2, 1988 of lung cancer in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania.〔(New York Times Obituary )〕
He was also known as Bob Watts or Doctor Bob.
==Early life==
After earning a degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Louisville, Watts served as an officer in the United States Navy aboard aircraft carriers.〔(Flux Med Dr Bob )〕 Watts left the Navy and moved to New York in 1948, where he studied art at the Art Students League and later at Columbia University from where he gained a degree in the History of Art, majoring in pre-Columbian and non-Western Art.〔 After becoming Professor of Art at Douglass College, Rutgers University, 1953, he started to exhibit works in a proto-pop style. He participated in Pop Art shows such as ''New Forms, New Media'' exhibition in 1960 at Martha Jackson's Gallery; the ''Popular Image'' exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Art in 1963; and the 1964 ''American Supermarket'' exhibition at New York's Bianchini Gallery, which also featured Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Tom Wesselmann.〔(Mail Art John Held Jr )〕 After exhibiting at Leo Castelli's Gallery in 1964, Watts turned his back on the gallery system, and concentrated instead on the anti-art of the emerging New York avant-garde centred around George Maciunas.
"() work obviously related to that of the Pop artists that I had discovered a few years before...Watts' chromed objects closely related to Johns' cast beer cans and flashlights, for instance. The 1964 exhibition also included Watts' sculpture of plaster cast loaves of bread on shelves. That work, in particular, I think of as one of his most important inventions. I'm also particularly fond of the chrome eggs and egg carton in my own collection which will appear in this () show. The public will be surprised that an artist -so promising at such an early date- did not receive through the years the appreciation he deserved." Leo Castelli〔
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