What does performance art mean?

Performance art refers to the avant-garde art performance that expresses ideas.

Performance art is one of the modern art forms that rose in Europe in 1950s and 1960s. Performance art is an avant-garde art performance that emerged after World War II to express ideas. Different from ordinary performing arts, it is not aimed at pleasing the audience, but is inflammatory.

Action art mainly uses its own body as the creative medium, and interacts with the audience in the form of unconventional and impromptu performances, so as to make art "live", try to break through the shackles of the system, expose the psychological illusion created by traditional art, and show the power of rebellion and freedom. Performance art usually has a strong social criticism, which is linked with issues such as race, class and gender.

Characteristics of performance art

Performance art is a process in which artists personally participate, carefully plan and introduce behaviors or events, and develop step by step to form results through communication with people. We define this event or process as performance art, which refers to the art composed of individual or group behaviors at a specific time and place. Performance art is not subject to any other restrictions: time, place, action art's body and communication with the audience. This kind of art is different from painting, sculpture and other art forms composed of concrete things.

Although theoretically, performance art can include some relatively more mainstream activities, such as acrobatics such as juggling, fire breathing, gymnastics, as well as drama, dance, music and so on. These are generally classified as performing arts. Performance art usually only refers to an avant-garde or conceptual art in the field of visual art.

Performance art means that artists take reality itself as the medium of artistic creation and continue it for a certain period of time. The originator of performance art is the famous French artist yves klein. His masterpiece is 196 1 year's Free Fall, when he freely fell from a tall building with open arms.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Performance Art for the above contents.