The Artwork of Robert Gober

             Robert Gober is an extraordinary American artist who has contributed many exclusive sculptures to the arts. Most of his works are from his imagination and daily life acquaintances. His sculptures are about jokes, puns, and slips of the tongue, and they also reveal distressing scenes of early childhood. In both, their content and fabrication, Gober's objects address the repetitious nature of the everyday. This is all to say that some of Gober's objects are funny and that their humor is of a daily nature. There are some unpleasant aspects of his pieces, and these diminished my affection for his artwork. The sexuality and the coarseness of his art give his work an unattractive, repulsive appearance. If Gober ever receives any fame for his sculptures, it is because of his brilliant, eccentric ideas.
             Gober has developed a unique sculptural practice that links many of the issues underlying Surrealism, Minimalism, and Conceptualism to psychological questions concerning the body and our domestic environment (Wallingford). With these representations, his sculptures typically explore the themes of childhood, memory, loss, and sexuality. "Gober's work is about a fantasy of being an artist--a fantasy in which creativity never involves immersing yourself in the overarching logic of a formal language." Described J. Simmon, an interviewer (Perl). Gober figures to be a unique American artist who always dreams up amusing and crazy stuff which other artists would never think of for their artwork. His images evolve from our everyday domestic lives and are transformed into the most realistic objects that distinguish between reality and dream. Simple but full of complexity, Gober uses a variety of body figures and regular craftsmanship in the artwork to portray his sophisticated imaginations. With the ideas, he has created many recognizable objects, such as drains, doors, children's furniture like the crib known as the Xplaypen, and the huma...

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