Thursday, January 8, 2015

What is Performance Art? What is Photography

Performance Art:

  1. Performance art is a form of arts practice that involves a person or persons undertaking an action or actions within a particular time frame in a particular space or location in front of an audience
  2. Defining Characteristic of Performing Arts: The body- considered primary medium and conceptual material performing arts is based on
  3. Dance, music, literature, architecture, fashion, design and film are other mediums used in performance art
  4. Performances can range from small scale dramas to solo performances
  5. Performing arts refer to theater, dance, opera, and circus
  6. Difference between performing arts and performance arts:
    1. Performing: "Making not Faking"
      1. Actual car windows are broken, real bullets are shot, and skin is really sunburned
      2. Not illusions but actual bodily experiences
    2. Performance: Opposite of performing
      1. Made to use cross overs, similarities, and illusions
Photography:
  1. Photography: Drawing with light
  2. Photography comes from the greek form photo meaning light and graph meaning draw
  3. It is evident for life! Form of communication and documentation
  4. First fixed photograph was created by Joseph Niepce and was referred to as the heliograph
  5. Louis Daguerre created the Daguerrotype which was a result of experimenting with light sensitive paper
  6. William Talbot made the first image created from a negative called the calotype
  7. Abstraction, Cubism, and Pictoralism were important movements in the photographic world
  8. Photojournalism is big today: way to document and journal about life, create stories, and report news; REALITY

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