Assignment Four
Instructions:
Answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. Your answers should be at least two paragraphs in length and needs to follow a logical thought process throughout. Please type your discussion below each question. You should turn in this assignment using the assignment tab in module one on Moodle. Please do not email me this assignment.
1.) Explain what performance art is in your own words. Give a brief history of its origin and why you think it is important today.
Performance art is a type of art that people demonstrate live through actions. These actions could include dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic, spoken word, or puppetry. It`s where artists perform in front of an audience and express and show their work by performing. Performance arts became more known and used in the 1970s. The history of this type of art is remembered around the time of futurist productions and dada cabarets of the 1910s.
This type of art was commonly known as a non-traditional way of creating art. Performance art is important today for a few reasons. One reason is that it is a way to express ourselves through different styles within theatre. It uses our ideas on how we view the world of art. Everyone has a different perspective on this type of art. This requires an adequate amount of creative skills, knowledge, and abilities.
2.) Explain in detail how performance art challenges the conventions of traditional forms of art such as painting and sculpture.
Performance art challenges the conventions of traditional forms of art such as painting and sculpture in a few ways. One way is that it’s a more unique way that one could vividly express one’s ideas by putting on a show. Painting is a more formal way of showing what goes through one`s mind on a canvas. Sculpture is a totally different way of showing how an idea or thought could create a piece of art through the use of three dimensions. These two are a whole different type of art similar to performing arts except the artists use their whole body to show art. While in traditional arts such as painting and sculpture, modern artists have the opportunity to integrate a reimagined possibility.
3.) How does performance art borrow styles and ideas from other forms of art? Does it borrow from other forms of activity not associated with art? Give some examples.
4.) In what ways are the compositional elements of line, form, color, mass, and texture present in performance art? Give some specific example. Color could be the outfits or costumes. Mass could be
5.) Explain the performance piece “Rhythm 0” in your own words. What does this piece try to communicate? Explain it in terms of communication.
6.) Explain the performance piece “A Living Door of the Museum.” What does this piece try to communicate? Explain it in terms of communication.
7.) Explain the relationship between Marina and Ulay. How and why do you think their relationship was important to the world of performance art?
8.) What was the last of Marina and Ulay’s relationship works? Explain the piece in your own words. What was the piece trying to communicate?
9.) Explain the piece “Transfiguration.” Did you like this piece? Explain in detail why you did or did not. Why do you think the piece was called “Transfiguration?”
10.) Why do you think many people have such an issue excepting performance art as “real” art? Give some examples of why you think performance art is or is not “real” art.
