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Allan Kaprow, born on August 23, 1927, was an influential American painter. Known for his contributions to performance and happenings art, he is considered one of the pioneers of environmental and event art. Kaprow's work often transcended traditional art forms, incorporating the audience and the surrounding environment into the art experience.

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“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”

Art Walks Streets Masterpiece

Author:Allan Kaprow

“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.”

Art Light Artist Water Generations Dog Objects Materials Thousand Paint Smoke Chairs Electric Sock Neon Neon Lights

Author:Allan Kaprow

“The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.”

Trying Real Young Artist Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary Things Ordinariness Young Artists

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“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”

Ifs Persons Artist Categories Dilemma

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.”

Should Art Lines Fluid Art And Life

Author:Allan Kaprow

“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.”

Home Artist Taken Activity Achievement Happenings Myth Melodrama

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.”

Ifs Art Names Wish Argument Endless

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.”

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.”

World Way Art Conditions Art Is Response Everyday

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.”

Notion Compelling

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.”

Art Artist Approach Mere Fragile Thread Marvelous Surroundings Melting Elusive Configuration

Author:Allan Kaprow

“You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.”

Teach Colour Bubbles Gum Bubble Gum

Author:Allan Kaprow

“The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.”

Needs Today Young Artist Poet Painter Dancer Young Artists

Author:Allan Kaprow

About the Author

Born: August 23, 1927
Died: April 5, 2006
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 13

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