But they saw an experiment: an example of art that at least tried to live in the real world, to be the "mirror of the world" that Mr. Foccroulle, in his program note, names as the goal of opera and of his festival.
For most of the small minority aware of the experiments of modern art, the bright colours of Matisse were still shocking and Picasso's assaults on beauty were beyond the pale.
During a year-and-a-half-long rehearsal process, Yokoshi solicited the students' interpretations of Gordon's piece and their own creations in response, as a kind of experiment in the transference of art across generations.
What if you could blur the two, so people were asking, 'Am I in an experiment or a piece of art?' There's a rich interface there," says Spence.
Islington Mill Art Academy (IMAA), which was founded in 2007, is based in Manchester and describes itself as, "a peer-led experiment into alternative modes of art education.
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Experiment with different styles of art.
The second room takes you deeper into Mr. Signer's "laboratory," with film clips of some of his experiments in the name of art.
And on he went, experimenting with other forms of art, including T-shirt design (his "Young'n pull your pants up" shirts) and video production.
She showed at Gallery 6 and was part of Bruce Conner's infamous Rat Bastard Protective Association with artists such as Wally Hedrick, Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo and Manuel Neri who prided themselves on being underground "outsiders" experimenting with a range of art forms, materials and processes.
