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Encyclopedia > Process Art

Process art is an artistic movement as well as a creative sentiment and world view where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art, is not the principal focus. The 'process' in process art refers to the process of the formation of art: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, and patterning. Process art is concerned with the actual doing; art as a rite, ritual, and performance. Process art often entails an inherent motivation, rationale, and intentionality. Therefore, art is viewed as a creative journey or process, rather than as a deliverable or end product. An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time (usually a few months, years or decades). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For other senses of this word, see ritual (disambiguation). ... Buskers perform in San Francisco A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). ... Intentionality, originally a concept from scholastic philosophy, was reintroduced in contemporary philosophy by the philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano in his work Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte. ...

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Process art movement

Process art has been entitled as a creative movement in the US and Europe in the mid-1960s. In scholarly artistic discourse[weasel words]}, the work of Jackson Pollock is hailed as an antecedent. Process art in its employment of serendipity has a marked correspondence with Dada. Change and transience are marked themes in the process art movement. The Guggenheim Museum states that Robert Morris in 1968 had a groundbreaking exhibition and essay defining the movement and the Museum Website states: Controversy swirls over the alleged sale of No. ... Look up Serendipity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... DaDa is a concept album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983. ... The Guggenheim Museum refers to any of several museums worldwide created and run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. ...

Process artists were involved in issues attendant to the body, random occurrences, improvisation, and the liberating qualities of nontraditional materials such as wax, felt, and latex. Using these, they created eccentric forms in erratic or irregular arrangements produced by actions such as cutting, hanging, and dropping, or organic processes such as growth, condensation, freezing, or decomposition. [1]

The ephemeral nature and insubstantiality of materials was often showcased and highlighted.


The Process art movement and the environmental art movement are directly related: The term Environmental art is used in two different senses. ...

Process artists engage the primacy of organic systems, using perishable, insubstantial, and transitory materials such as dead rabbits, steam, fat, ice, cereal, sawdust, and grass. The materials are often left exposed to natural forces: gravity, time, weather, temperature, etc. [2]

In process art, as in the Arte Povera movement, nature itself is lauded as art; the symbolization and representation of nature, often rejected. The term Arte Povera (Italian for poor art) was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. ...


Process art antecedent

The process art movement has precedent in indigenous rites, shamanic and religious rituals, cultural forms such as sandpainting, sun dance, and the Tea ceremony are fundamentally related pursuits. Sandpainting is the art of painting ritual paintings for religious or healing ceremonies. ... Sketch of a Siouan Sun Dance by George Catlin The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by a number of native americans. ... A tea ceremony is a ritualised form of making tea. ...


Aspects of the process of the construction of a Vajrayana Buddhist sand mandala (a subset of sandpainting) of Medicine Buddha by monks from Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, New York that began February 26, 2001 and concluded March 21, 2006 has been captured and web-exhibited [3] by the Ackland's Yager Gallery of Asian Art. The dissolution of the mandala was on June 8, 2001. Vajrayāna Buddhism (Also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayana, Mantrayana, Mantranaya, Esoteric Buddhism, Diamond Vehicle, or 金剛乘 Jingangcheng in Chinese; however, these terms are not always regarded as equivalent: one scholar[1] speaks of the tantra divisions of some editions of the Kangyur as including Sravakayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana texts) is... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... For the film, see Mandala (film). ... Superset redirects here. ... Bhaisajyaguru (薬師 Ch. ... Namgyal Monastery (rNam Gyal in Tibetan, named for a long-life deity) is any of several Tibetan Buddhist institutions associated with the Dalai Lama(s). ...


Process art artists

Benglis in her advertisement in the 1974 issue of Artforum Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. ... Chris Drury (Born 1948, Colombo, Sri Lanka) is a British environmental artist. ... Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ... Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ... Bronze Gate (2005) is a cor-ten steel work by Robert Morris. ... Fulcrum 1987, 55 ft high free standing sculpture of Cor-ten steel near Liverpool Street station, London Richard Serra (born November 29, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. ... Keith Sonnier (born 1941, Mamou, Louisiana) is a minimalist, performance, video and light artist. ...

References

  1. ^ Source: http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/glossary_Process_art.html (accessed: Thursday, March 15, 2007)
  2. ^ Source: http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=1037 (accessed: Thursday, March 15, 2007)
  3. ^ Source: http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/buddhistart/construction.htm (accessed: Thursday, March 15, 2007)
  • Wheeler, D. (1991). Art Since the Midcentury: 1945 to the Present.

 

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