The Gutai was a Japanese artistic movement founded in the 50’s. The word translates to embodiment or concrete. “In their early public exhibitions in 1955 and 1956 Gutai artists created a series of striking works anticipating later Happenings and Performance and Conceptual art.” The art of the Gutai was created to give life to the material instead of changing it or falsifying it. Their work included events such as: rolling through mud, running through a paper screen, painting with feet, throwing glass jars filled with paint into a canvas, and more.
(10/29/07)
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=130
http://www.ashiya-web.or.jp/museum/10us/103education/nyumon_us/manifest_us.htm
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