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.
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, ...
Happenings were a popular mode of performance that arose in the 1960s, and which took place in all kinds of unconventional venues.
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.
Between 1960 and 1970 Abstract Expressionism had waned, emerging directions such as Formalism, Color Field painting, Fluxus, Happenings, Minimalism, Pop Art, ...
Beuys's art objects and performances weren't/aren't about entertaining an audience, though in their confluence of wacky happenings with strange substances, in their novelty, they must have at least entertained the most unwilling observer.
Many of the Variations and other 1960s pieces were in fact "happenings", an art form established by Cage and his students in late 1950s.
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 could take place anywhere, were often multi-disciplinary, often lacked a narrative and frequently sought to involve the audience in some way.
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. ...
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'.
Performance elements surfaced in a number of conceptual art movements of the 1960s, including: Fluxus, Happenings, body art, process art, street works, etc.
In addition, some critics regard Happenings, a movement incorporating environment and spectators as active and important ingredients in the production of random events, as a recent development of Dada.
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.
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.
And Three Chairs (Conceptual Art p.467) was purchased by the Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Anyway, Conceptual Art, Site Works and Earthworks as well as Performance Art, including Events and Happenings, ...
They preferably dealt with various forms of direct action - assemblages and happenings rather than comics or AD. In Britain popular culture and technology was just the subject of the popular art.
 See also: Happening, Movement, Painting, Performance, Sculpture
  
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