live painting

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Live painting is a form of visual performance art{{cite news|publisher=CMJ New Music Monthly|date=February 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22live+painting%22+%22performance+art%22&pg=PA80|title=From Street to Center Stage|author=Neil Gladstone}} in which artists complete a visual art piece in a public performance, often at a bar, music concert, wedding reception, or public event, accompanied by a DJ or live music.{{cite news |publisher= San Francisco Chronicle |title=Berkeley: Painting in public -- Picassos play the pubs |author= Harriet Chiang |date=2005-07-22 |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/22/EBGQVDNDEA1.DTL#ixzz0Pq3zsBLb}} The artwork which is created live may be planned or improvisational.{{cite web |url=http://www.specialeventpainter.com/livepainting.htm |title=What is "Live Event Painting?" |publisher=Arlissa Vaughn |date= |accessdate=2014-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912213143/http://www.specialeventpainter.com/livepainting.htm |archive-date=2014-09-12 |url-status=usurped }} This live art form is often contrasted with more studied fine art compositions from the same artists, which are generally executed in an artist studio or other private space.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WXkjT69Q2XwC&dq=%22live+painting%22+%22performance+art%22&pg=PA31 |title= The Warhol economy: how fashion, art, and music drive New York City |publisher= Princeton University Press |author= Elizabeth Currid |page=224 |isbn= 978-0-691-12837-5 |year=2007}}

Artists in a number of genres have performed live painting, including LeRoy Neiman creating a painting during the 1976 Summer Olympics. In the 1990s and 2000s, live painting became a hallmark of street art and graffiti artists.

Artists

One of Australia's famous exponents of live painting performance art, Robert K Gammage,{{cite web|url=http://www.houseoftola.com |title=House of Tola |publisher=House of Tola |date= |accessdate=2012-09-08}} has introduced the physical participation by spectators/hosts and or guests of adding imagery and colour in situ in the public domain during the event.{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrBwBC6Hql0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/nrBwBC6Hql0 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Artist on Artist |publisher= YouTube |date= |accessdate= 2012-09-08}}{{cbignore}}feature SUNDAY LIFE, Sunshine Coast Daily Sept 9 2001

Caitlin Beidler, an American artist of Redemption Art, uses her live paintings to restore people, relationships, and communities through art. Redemption Art aims to be an effective tool in the restoration process by first creating trusting relationships through art, regardless of race, age, culture, or socioeconomic status. From these relationships, Redemption Art seeks to help bring about restoration and then transformation.{{cite web |url= http://www.caitlinbeidler.com/about.htm |title= Redemption Art: Restoring People Through Art - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina |publisher= Caitlin Beidler |date= |accessdate= 2012-09-08 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101003063925/http://www.caitlinbeidler.com/about.htm |archive-date= 2010-10-03 |url-status= dead }}

The live artist teams from Haven Art Studio collaborate on works of art during performances. These teams were started in 2005 by the eight members of the Randolph family, based in Redding, California. They paint thematic works that echo world events with a positive redemption message.{{cite web |url=http://www.redding.com/news/2010/aug/13/finding-beauty-in-tragedy/ |title=Haven Art Studios finds beauty in tragedy » Redding Record Searchlight |accessdate=2013-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102090109/http://www.redding.com/news/2010/aug/13/finding-beauty-in-tragedy/ |archivedate=2013-11-02 }}

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