Action
Since 1910, various movements of modern art had used similar events as a means of shock values of the established art and as a catalyst of new ideas. The main features are: a) run “at the time”, live b) participate in general and non-artists (musicians, dancers, poets, etc.). Similar forms of expression come across in the case of the Italian Futurists, the Russian Futurists and Constructivist, of the Zurich Dada, the Surrealists, even of the Bauhaus. In the decade of 1950, thanks to the actions of John Kaiitz in Black Maountain College and the related activities -often under the name “happenings”- of artists such as Rauschenberg, Dinah, Oldenburg and Capru, this expressive media had seen a new boom. In recent years, movements such as the Paint Movement, the Art of Earth and the conceptual art, and artists such as Y. Klein, P. Manzoni, B. Akontsi, L. Anderson, G. Bush, K. Barden, Guilbert and George, R. Wilson, K. Sneeman, etc. have been widely resorted to such practices.