Sentences with phrase «fluxus activity»

Spanning the early Fluxus activity to final autobiographical pieces, the selection of Nam June Paik work exhibited at SFMoMA under the title In Character, is an overview of the artist's playful vocabulary that overcomes artistic media and boundaries of...

These Fluxus activities were already leading him in the experimental direction of Dada, but it wasn't until about 1959, after his essay on Pollock, that he started to create the «Happenings» and «Environments» for which he became famous.

In its denial of traditional disciplinary boundaries, this influential event set a pattern for Happenings and Fluxus activities and provided an impetus for much of the live art of the following decade.

Not exact matches

Its collective activities parallel not just painting, but Fluxus, Black Mountain, Yves Klein, and the happenings of the 1960s still to come.

Many of Kirkeby's Fluxus - inspired activities seized upon notions of shelter and the interrelationship of interior and exterior spaces, both natural and man - made.

However, this kind of activity bears more similarity to 20th century Dada, or Neo-Dada, and particularly the works of the Fluxus group of the 1960s, than to 20th century monochrome painting since Malevich.

Regarded as a European form of American Pop Art - although its members» activities predate most of Roy Lichtenstein's pictures and Andy Warhol's pop art - New Realism is closer in spirit to European avant - garde art of 1960, such as Fluxus, new forms of Assemblage art like and Situationist International.

Although it dates back to the medieval performances of court minstrels and travelling troubadours (if not to the oratorical performances of Classical Antiquity), modern Performance Art owes its existence to the activities of avant - garde movements such as Futurism (c.1909 - 14), Dada (1916 - 24), Surrealist Automatism (1924 - 40), Nouveau Realisme (early 1960s), Fluxus (1960s), Neo-Dada (1960s), Body Art (from 1960) and Feminist Art (1970 onwards).

According to Maciunas, the aim of Fluxus was to revolutionize the creative world in order to bring about a closer integration of life and art; a type of art with no barriers between the genres, and which embraced as many artistic activities as possible, from vaudeville to «found objects» and junk art.

This alternative to standard artistic distribution channels distanced from the gallery / museum system appealed to fellow artists, including those associated with Fluxus and Japanese Gutai, who were searching for new ways of resuscitating art by integrating it with everyday activities.

Fluxus was an avant - garde group of artists (its name means «flowing» in Latin) led by the Lithuanian - born art theorist George Maciunas (1931 - 78), which first appeared in Germany before spreading to other European capitals and then New York City, which became the centre of its activities.