Everything about Process Art totally explained
Process art is an
artistic movement as well as a creative sentiment and world view where the end product of
art and
craft, the, isn't 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.
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 }, 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:
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.
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.
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, 2006 has been captured and web-exhibited by the Ackland's Yager Gallery of Asian Art. The dissolution of the mandala was on June 8, 2001.
Process art artists
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