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Energy pervades the work of art, and the more that energy is clarified, intensified, and concentrated, the more compelling the work of art should be. Dewey gives the example of young children intending to act a play. “They gesticulate, tumble and roll, each pretty much on his own account, with little reference to what others are doing.”
Participatory art is a form unto itself, while other types of art that interface with the public (social practice, socially-engaged art, community-based art, etc.) are its sub-types. While it may seem paradoxical, just because an artwork engages with the public, that does not make it participatory.
Social practice or socially engaged practice [1] in the arts focuses on community engagement through a range of art media, human interaction and social discourse. [2] While the term social practice has been used in the social sciences to refer to a fundamental property of human interaction, it has also been used to describe community-based arts practices such as relational aesthetics, [3] [4 ...
A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort in the world through a creative process involving one or more individuals. The term includes fine artwork ( sculpture , paintings , drawing , sketching , performance art ), dance , writing ( literature ), filmmaking , and musical composition .
Although engagement in artistic activities has been integral to the means by which individuals and communities have sought personal comfort, self-reflection, and group cohesion for thousands of years, the origin of transformative arts as a modern formal concept is commonly attributed to the work of John Dewey.
Internet art has many different forms, but often there is some kind of community that is created for a project or it is an effect of an art project. One example of community art is the so-called image worm, whereby artists on a forum will build upon a canvas and smoothly transition in their own piece between the last piece using image stitching ...
The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines which produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and convey a message, mood, or symbolism for the perceiver to interpret (art as experience). Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas ...
Process art is an artistic movement where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art (work of art/found object), is not the principal focus; the process of its making is one of the most relevant aspects if not the most important one: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and ...