Drop Art

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[edit] Establishment

In 1961, filmmaker Gene Bernofsky and artist Clark Richert, art students from the University of Kansas, developed an art concept they called Drop Art or "droppings". Informed by the "happenings" of Allan Kaprow and the impromptu performances a few years earlier of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College, Drop Art began when Richert and Bernofsky started painted rocks and dropping them from a loft roof onto the sidewalk of Lawrence Kansas's main drag - watching the reactions of passersby. Early Drop Art included such pieces as "Egg Drop" and "Pendulum" (pictured) . Drop Art eventually led to the creation of Drop City, an experimental artist's community founded in 1965 near Trinidad, Colorado. The intention was to create a live-in work of "Drop Art".

References:

• John Q McDonald --- 21 July 2006

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/book/revs3/dcty.html

• Bringing It All Together : DROP CITY by Tim Miller

http://www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/root2.html

• Ruins of Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado, August 1995 by Joel Sternfeld

http://www.hainesgallery.com/Main_Pages/Artist_Pages/JSTE.image_3.html

• Zome-inspired Sculpture by Paul Hildebrandt http://www.lkl.ac.uk/bridges/Zome-Hildebrandt.pdf#search=%22%22drop%20art%22%20drop%20city%22

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