performance artists
Bodies as medium
Performance artists create live art that uses the body, time, and space as primary materials rather than producing objects like paintings or sculptures.
The work often blurs boundaries between art and life, incorporating elements of theater, dance, music, or ritual: The performance artists covered themselves in honey and spoke in tongues for three hours.
Some court controversy or discomfort; others pursue meditative stillness.
The singular is performance artist.
- actorsThose playing roles
- happeningsThings that take place
- actingTemporarily holding position
- mimeWordless expressive performer
- entertainerOne who amuses others
creativity · spectacle · exhibition · conceptual · physical endurance · body art · naked body · shock value · experimental theater · improvisation · audience · audience participation · storytelling · costume · expressions · theater · theatrics · artists
- art worldpainter, painting, paintings, sculpture, sculptures
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
- digital artistsdigital artists, 3D modeler, compositor, animator, animators
- emerging artistsrising star, rising stars, up-and-comers, newcomer, newcomers
- living sculpturestopiary, bonsai, espalier, living walls, vertical gardens
performance artistssculptors
Artists who shape forms
painters · printmakers · oil painters · visual artists · ceramicists
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