Process art

Process art
Process art is an artistic movement as well as a creative sentiment where the end product of art and craft, the objet dart, is not the principal focus. The 'process' in process art refers to the process of the formation of art: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and proceedings. Process art is concerned with the actual doing and how actions can be defined as an actual work of art; seeing the art as pure human expression. 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.

Process art movement

Process art has been entitled as a creative movement in the US and Europe in the mid-1960s. It has roots in Performance Art, the Dada movement and, more traditionally, the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, and in its employment of serendipity. 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: 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: 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.

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. 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, 2001 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.

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Process art artists

Lynda Benglis Chris Drury Eva Hesse Gary Kuehn Barry Le Va Bruce Nauman Robert Morris Richard Serra Keith Sonnier

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: Monday, December 22, 2008)

Wheeler, D. (1991). Art Since the Midcentury: 1945 to the Present.

Article Sources and Contributors

Article Sources and Contributors

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