Actionism

Actionism can mean:Viennese Actionism, a school of art which started in Vienna, Austria.a term used by Theodor W. Adorno to refer to 1960s Radicals.an excessive emphasis on action, activity, or change in lieu of continuity, stability, and permanence.

Viennese Actionism was a violent art movement in the 20th century that led to the development of action art in the 1960s. Gunter Brus, Otto Muhl, and Hermann Nitsch were among its main participants.

Actionism
English name for Performance art, specifically applied to the Vienna based group Wiener Aktionismus established in 1962. The main members of the group included Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolph Schwarzkogler.

A youthful, cavorting master of Lyrical Abstractionism, Georges Mathieu, at age thirty, is also a brilliant theoretician whom no modern scientific, psychological, or linguistic notion escapes... Nomadic artist or artiste nomade: Contemporary art ...

After many decades of Abstractionism in all its forms, followed by the Conceptualism of the 1970s, Transavanguardia took up figurative art again and re-examined the colours and tools of painting.

[edit] "Mythomorphic" Abstractionism
At the root of Rothko and Gottlieb's presentation of archaic forms and symbols as subject matter illuminating modern existence had been the influence of Surrealism, Cubism, and abstract art.

- A type of "Gestural Abstractionism," practiced by Jackson Pollock, in which the emphasis was on the heroic aspects of the artist's gesture in making art.

Abstractionism (Naum Gabo, Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich)
Suprematism (Kazimir Malevich)
Dada (Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters) ...

"On several occasions, I have been asked how Transhumanist Extropic Art differs from or opposes preceding genres such as Expressionism, Dadaist, Actionism and Conceptual Art.

Color Abstractionism: A Survey of Recent American Painting, Arts, v. 45.n.3, December 1970, pp.34-40.
Channin, Richard. New Directions in Painterly Abstraction, Art International, Sept. 1970; pp.62-64.
Davis, Douglas.

See also: Movement, Expression, Painting, Art movement, Abstraction