Corporal art

The corporal art , in English body art , is a whole of practices Art istic exits of the first performances.

Performance with the corporal art

It is with the Black Mountain College that the first Happening S or performances made their appearance, attributant with the artists Plasticien S a type of medium up to that point hold to the Danse and the Théâtre in particular: it is then possible for an artist to put itself in scene, or to put in scene a whole of performeurs .

Following the sexual Release of the Years 1960, the body became a central subject of work for a great number of artists plastics technicians, Vidéaste S, whose medium of the expression more succeeded, even most extreme, was the performance, through the corporal art.

The development of the corporal art

In the Years 1970, often acting like a beam of artistic actions, policies and sometimes subversive, the corporal art pushed back some limiting of representation, by sometimes causing the negative reactions of a public jellyfish.

The Mass for a body , of Michel Journiac, a personal reinterpretation of the catholic Liturgy, puts in scene the artist and the roll produced with its own blood. Gina Breads, it, puts in scene a body in its dimension at the same time ludic and fragile, where violences which it inflicts are intended to cause the communication with psyché major of the spectator.

Hermann Nitsch organized Crucifixion S of animals, where religious and political echoes are made feel. Cuban the Anna Mendieta, very politically committed, also made use of its body like artistic vector.

Corporal art today

After the will of decompartmentalization of the artistic categories and inversion of the middle-class values strongly anchored in the corporal art of the Years 1970, the movement gradually evolved to the works more directed towards the personal Mythologie S, as at Jana Sterbak, Rebecca Horn, Youri Messen-Jaschin or Javier Perez.

The corporal art is from now on an identified medium and usually employed by the contemporary plastics technicians, but also in other social occasions, or its impact symbolic system is largely developed.

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