What is performance art?

What is performance art?

Performance art is one of the modern art forms that emerged in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. It means that the artist uses reality itself as the medium for artistic creation and continues it for a certain period of time. An art form that relies on specific environments and meanings to carry out artistic creation activities. Compared with easel painting, traditional sculpture and other arts that focus on the preservation of the results of artistic behavior, performance art emphasizes and pays attention to the meaning of the artist's behavioral process. It is a typical process art form with performative characteristics. As performance artists, most of them firmly believe in the artist’s personal freedom of artistic creation. Creative experience can only come through openness. Only art creation practices that are impromptu, plotless and integrated with life can be obtained and realized. Therefore, performance art has the characteristics of open emotional performance. That is to say, performance artists do not shut themselves indoors most of the time to carry out their artistic creation work in "solitude" like easel painting artists. Instead, they use themselves in real-time in an open space-time environment - streets, squares, etc. Unrestrained emotions are released in public, and the quality of the performance process is emphasized. Therefore, performance art does not have a gestalt result like easel painting; the performance process is the whole of its works. Secondly, art is general. Performance artists use their own unique artistic creation process to display traditional art from the unattainable and sacred temple of elite culture to the "bland" state of "nothing more than this" in the minds of ordinary audiences. Especially in some works, general audiences are invited to participate, which further eliminates the psychological distance between the artist and the audience and enhances the audience's sense of identification with the artistic creation behavior. At the same time, performance art emphasizes the behavioral process. Objectively speaking, it expands the single perspective of art focusing on behavioral results to the field of fully understanding and paying attention to the process of artistic behavior, thereby helping people to fully understand the overall behavior of human art and the development movement that conforms to the regularity and purpose of art. . Finally, performance art has the characteristics of profound art in the ordinary. That is to say, performance art is the "meaningful" performance art of performance artists. We say that performance art breaks "art and non-art" and "art and life." "The traditional boundaries of "performance artists have invited the audience to participate in their specific works to jointly create works of art... All of this cannot be simply mistaken for - no matter who you are, you can do whatever you want as long as you want. "Performance" is then defined as the creative practice of "performance art". Performance art can only be artists who are rich in artistic creativity and courage, and have both profound artistic thoughts and profound art in the field of art. It is an act of artistic creation that displays profound symbols of thought; it is not a "really" ordinary "shallow" behavior of anyone, no different from daily life behavior. Performance art is the artist's ordinary and meaningful "blandness". The art of profound sexuality.