Lifelike art

" Lifelike art did not merely label life as art. It was continuous with that life, inflecting, probing, testing, and even suffering it, but always attentively. ( That`s the source of its humor; when you look closely at your suffering, it can be pretty funny...)

The purpose of lifelike art was therapeutic: to reintegrate the piecemeal reality we take for granted. Not just intellectually, but directly, as experience–in this moment, in this house, at this kitchen sink..."

Allan Kaprow, in Essays on The Blurring of Art and Life