CategoriesStyles and Movements
Process Art
Art from the mid-1960s in which the act of making and the behaviour of materials, rather than a finished object, become the subject.
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Richard Serra's Verb List (1967–68) begins like a programme: to roll, to crease, to fold. Process art makes such actions and the behaviour of materials the subject, with the object left as evidence. In Splashing (1968) Serra threw molten lead into the angle between wall and floor and let it set where it landed. Robert Morris's essay “Anti Form” (1968) argued for letting soft materials find their own shapes under gravity, as his heaps of cut felt do.
Lynda Benglis poured pools of pigmented latex onto the floor, and Barry Le Va scattered felt, flour and broken glass. The approach was international. Gilberto Zorio used chemical reactions that go on changing a work, and from the 1970s the Korean painter Ha Chong-hyun pushed oil paint through the back of coarse hemp cloth. Look for drips, sags, stains and forms that depend on how they were made or installed.
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