Rocco Armento (October 25, 1924 – December 30, 2011) was an American sculptor, painter, and member of the NO!art movement.
In March 1943, Armento joined the U.S. Army as a Radio Repairman, serving in the 155th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in the European Theater, his service beginning in Normandy.
He lived and studied in Paris on the GI Bill from 1950 to 1953, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, then returned to the United States.
Arts Magazine drew attention to this focus on texture; "A tender and vulnerable quality bespeaks deeper emotions than are immediately apparent in the plaster figures and torsos of Rocco Armento.
They sit and stand just right, portly and with bumpy limbs in balanced poses, and are as homely and familiar as people in the subway.
[12] Photographs of his sculpture have been preserved by the Smithsonian[13] and his contributions to American Art recorded in the Thomas Hess Papers.