Happening
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Happenings were a hybrid form of art, taking their inspiration freely from theatrical, musical, literary, pictorial, and sculptural methods of expression.
This new form of contemporary art - which emerged out of Happenings and Installation, and became a major form of avant-garde art during the late 1960s and 1970s - takes as its medium the artist himself, the actual artwork being the artist's actions.
Happening
An event conceived by artists and performed by artists and others, typically unrehearsed and without a specific script or stage.
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Happenings.
A term used by the artist Allan Kaprow to describe the hybrid art forms of the 1960s in which visual artists extended their works into theatrical situations, often with spectator participation, ...
happening A spontaneous, often multimedia event, conceived by artists and performed not only by the artists themselves but often by the public present at the event as well.
Happening or happening - Happenings were loosely structured theatrical pieces from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s, which shared qualities of unexpectedness (a large margin for improvisation), variety of means, and chaos, ...
Happenings were a popular mode of performance that arose in the 1960s, and which took place in all kinds of unconventional venues.
It was at this point that Rouault claimed he had the good fortune to find himself as a painter, but to have been quite unconscious of what was happening to him: It was not the influence of Lautrec, ...
Some critics regard HAPPENINGS as a recent development of Dada. This movement incorporates environment and spectators as active and important ingredients in the production of random events.
^ Wolf Vostell Happening YOU 1964 in New York
^ Montfort, Nick, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.: MIT, 2003. Print.
^ Youngblood, Gene (1970). Expanded Cinema. New York, New York: A. Dutton.
Between 1960 and 1970 Abstract Expressionism had waned, emerging directions such as Formalism, Color Field painting, Fluxus, Happenings, Minimalism, Pop Art, ...
We then retreated to the front porch of the house to wait for the crowds to descend on the money tree - the Happening part.
posthumous, posthumously - Happening or continuing after one's death. When applied to a work of art, posthumous might indicate works that are printed or cast after an artist's death, as with a posthumous edition.
I do not remember the war when it was happening. I did not learn about it in school. To see these men and women with their shirts and flags shakes me. Seeing the things people have left here shakes me.
By the late 40s, word of what was happening in North Carolina had started to spread throughout the country.
At the bottom are the Apostles (humanity), amazed and stunned by the wondreous happening. St. Peter is kneeling with his hand on his breast, St. Thomas is pointing at the Virgin, and St. Andrew in a red cloak is stretching forward.
a) Description
Describe the subject matter. What is happening? Use descriptive words (adjectives).
b) Analysis
Describe the colours that have been used? Where are they used? Do they create a certain mood or atmosphere?
It became clear to the art world that something of great significance was happening.
Thus is put in motion the promise of salvation for humankind, a salvation necessitated by the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, which we see happening on the left, outside Mary's jewellike home.
At the start of 1960's he was involved in various 'Happenings': spontaneous, improvised, artistic events where the experience of the participants was more important than an end product - a kind of consumer art encounter for a consumer culture. ...
(They) put forward their hypothesis that everything was happening as if there were an active phantom who talked through people like a ventriloquist and even acted on their behalf.
The British movement happening at the same time focused on a detailed gothic style where walls were covered in wallpaper or white washed with themes from medieval times. Textiles and ceramics were realistic and colorful.
In the 1960's, Robert Rauschenberg and others were involved in 'happenings,' a similar endeavor, where, for instance, someone would be riding a bicycle around and through the performance area, another person would be reciting a prose poem, ...
Their art was intended to be in praise of illogicality, absurdity playfulness and chance happenings, and their mode of expression 'anti-art'.
The official title of the exhibit was the International Exhibition of Modern Art because the goal was to show Americans what was happening in European art, especially in France. (German Expressionism was ignored).
Fluxus art often manifested itself into performance art pieces, called "Aktions" or "Happenings" in America. Fluxus artists shifted the importance from what an artist creates to the artist's actions, opinions, and emotions.
usually understood, began to be identified in the 1960s with the work of artists such as Yves Klein, Vito Acconci, Hermann Nitsch, Chris Burden, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell and Allan Kaprow, who coined the term happenings.
The growing speed of the transference of ideas, money, information and culture around the globe seems to be happening within art worlds as well. Many of the boundaries and disctinctions within Art have loosened.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, School, Aesthetic
  
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