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    Performance art is an essentially contested concept: any single definition of it implies the recognition of rival uses. As concepts like "democracy" or "art"‚ it implies productive disagreement with itself.[1] The meaning of the term in the narrower sense is related to postmodernist traditions in Western culture. From about the mid-1960s into the 1970s‚ often derived from concepts of visual art‚ with respect to Antonin Artaud‚ Dada‚ the Situationists‚ Fluxus‚ Installation art‚ and Conceptual Art

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    As an art student‚ I find the art that we learn about in class very interesting because it is art that I would never be interested in‚ but yet after learning the details I enjoy them. Although I don’t mind learning art through power points‚ I find physically looking at art more enjoyable. Getting the whole experience of physical artwork is a more exciting way to learn and catches my interest more‚ which is why I was so excited to visit a new museum and look at some art. For this assignment I decided

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    Contemporary Performance Art: How it Varies From the early 1970’s performance art has become one of the most revolutionary ways of public expression. It is what some people would describe as “against the norm” when bringing up the subject of art. These kind of performances are presented to either random or specific audiences‚ where the performer presents and orchestrates scripted or unscripted work‚ or random and spontaneous works of art which include poetry‚ acting‚ dance‚ song‚ and painting

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    Performance Arts Final Reflection For the past few weeks in Performance Arts Class‚ we have worked on choreography pieces created by different people in the class. Each person in the class was given the chance to be a choreographer. The choreographers would choose other students to act as performers in their dance. The choreographers would choose the performers based on the movement styles they had shown in previous classes. Not only were the students choreographing their own dances‚ but they were

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    Why is Performance Art important to me? How can I begin to write a paper about something I’ve been “passionate” about for a little less then a year? I use to dislike performance art with a passion. I didn’t use to like it because as a visual artist I couldn’t understand the purpose of art with no object. Art that essentially left nothing behind‚ but confusion. How could something be ‘art’ if it’s purely an action with no tangible result? Art to me had always been object centric. Art is a

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    Performing Arts- Forms of creative activity that are performed in front of an audience‚ such as drama‚ music‚ and dance. Types of Performing Arts * Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body‚ often rhythmic and to music. * Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. * Theatre (also theater in American English)[1] is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience

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    issues within this time period. Artists that center around performance art‚ who use shock to convey their artworks‚ are subjected to change. Changes within the world inspire artists to create artworks that reflect these evolving aspects. Different developments in terms of practice have changed the world that we know. Advancements with technology‚ science and environment have influenced performance artists such pioneers in performance art Yves Klein‚ Stelarc and Ron Mueck who creates life like figures

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    Some theorists might categorize a stand-up comedian as a performance artist. A performance artist is someone who creates a type of art and displays it to an audience or group of people. A comedian is someone who puts on a humorous show and acts out funny things to make an audience act. Also‚ a comedian is doing their comedy for entertainment like another type of performance artist. The goal for the comedian is to give something back to the audience by making them life and entertaining them. I would

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    Art Is Art

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    Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however‚ like the decorative arts‚ it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they are usually not for a painting

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    What is considered art has been a controversial question for many years in history and today. There are various forms and types of art. Because art is very complex and diverse‚ it is viewed and conceptualized in many different ways. Nancy G. Heller states even though a type of artwork is hard to understand‚ it’s considered art‚ and artwork that people don’t understand shouldn’t be disregarded from other types of art. She feels as though people shouldn’t be intimidated by artwork that’s hard to understand

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