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Today we continued our discussion on performance art, and looked into a a few subcategories of performance art. Post performance artists do not get paid for their work, until they gain enough recognition to perform in front of large crowds. Performance art is meant to be extremely unconventional and challenges the way people think. So even in controversy, performance artists are having their work viewed by many people. There are usually 4 criteria to identify performance art: 1)time (long or short) 2)act takes place in space 3)a body 4)some type of interaction with the audience.
One of the first "forms" of performance art was Jackson Pollock's abstract expressionist paintings. He created these works of arts with dripping and splattering paint on canvases that were not necessarily on an easel like traditional paintings. We discussed other performance artist's works including Marina Abramovic, whose career is always shrouded in controversy. When asked about the difference between her work and theater, Marina replied "theater is fake, performance art is entirely real." And nothing can prove this more than Marina's masochistic works such as nailing herself to a cross or being lit on fire in front of an audience.
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