"I have for many years accepted, and I still do, the doctrine of art, oriental and occidental, set forth by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his book The Transformation of Nature in Art, that the function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation."

-- John Cage

"Imitate nature closely; above all, imitate nature's way of creating."

-- August Strindberg, "The New Arts! Or, the role of Chance in Artistic Creation" (1894)

Process art

Giovanni Anselmo.Uten tittel (1968)

Lynda BenglisFor Carl Andre (1970)

Latex Floor Painting (1969)

Eva Hesse Untitled (Rope Piece) (1969)

Keith SonnierWall Cloth Piece (1968)

"Around the beginning of the 1960s the problem presented itself as to what alternatives could be found to the Abstract Expressionist mode of arranging. The Minimal presented a powerful solution: construct instead of arrange. Just as that solution can be framed in terms of an opposition (arrange/build), so can the present shift be framed in terms dialectically: don't build... but what? Drop, hang, lean -- in short, act. If the static noun of 'form' is substituted for the dynamic verb to 'act' in the priority of making, a dialectical formulation has been made. What has been underlined by recent work in the unconstructed mode is that since no two materials have the same existential properties, there is no single type of act that can easily structure one's approach to various metarials. [...] what is clear in some recent work is that materials are not being brought into allignment with static a priori forms as that material is being probed for opeings that allow that allow the artist a behavioristic access."

-- Robert Morris, "Towards a Phenomenology of Making" (I: Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris, s. 91)

Richard SerraVerb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself (1967-68)

Gabriel OrozcoMy Hands Are My Heart (2002)

Michel BlazyPatman 2 (2006)

Michel BlazySculptcure (par Jan Luc Blanc) (2001)

Katharina GrossePicture Park (2007)

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