Concept in Definition ABC

The term that concerns us below does not originally belong to our language but it is a term typical of the English language but that has managed to take root in our language to force of its use. It arose basically from the English verb perform, which in Spanish refers to act.

The performance consists of a show artistic whose main characteristics are, on the one hand, the improvisation that dominates the artistic representation and, on the other hand, the emphasis attributed to it in the aesthetic question, that is, in the performances, both the action and the image go hand in hand and the same intensity is put in that both are forceful.

As a consequence of these two values, performances tend to awaken in those who appreciate them very much. astonishment.

It should be noted that the origin of this type of manifestation artistic cultural we found it in the Vanguardproposed by the movements that spread Futurism, at the beginning of the last century.
That is, representatives of this trend in their eagerness to show us that there were other ways of expressing themselves began to use rather unusual and new ways and so it is that through putting in

scene individuals, stunts, samples of painting, among others, they spread their messages, clearly breaking the order of things established in this matter.

Also where the performance is characterized by breaking established standards since it is common for them to be carried out in little places. conventional and that out there do not have a strict link with art, for example the public highway, a shopping center, a square, among so many others.
Even many times it turns out to be more attractive where and not the content of the performance.

Although at present it is practically daily for us to find various artistic manifestations that we could frame in the performance, it is important that we mention that when this emerged with great force back in the mid-fifties of the last century it was not so common for an artist or a group of artists to manifest their art in full Street. That is why we say that performance in a certain sense imposed a new way of expressing art and culture and also of appreciating it, for those on the other side.

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