Nut Art

According to De Forest, Nut artists sought to create fantasy worlds reflective of their own quirks and eccentricities.

As such, Nut Art placed a high degree of emphasis on evolving visions, of which specific artworks were produced as part of the ongoing process of self-definition, or in service to creating new personas and personal mythologies.

Because of the emphasis on concept and satire, Nut Art welcomed contributions from participants without formal artistic backgrounds as well as those with advanced technical skill and training.

[1] Nut Art also reflected the importance of process over product, which had been a central tenet of the Action painters a generation previous.

[2] Besides De Forest, other key practitioners of Nut Art included Robert Arneson,[3] Clayton Bailey (as well as Bailey's alter-ego Dr. Gladstone[2]), Victor Cicansky (alter-ego Victor Ceramski), Robert Cumming, Lowell Darling, Betty G. Bailey, Jack Ford, David Gilhooly, Jerry Gooch, Linda Renner, Peter Saul, Sally Saul, Harold Schlotzhauer, Richard Shaw, Irv Tepper, Chris Unterseher, Peter VandenBerge, Franklin Williams, Maija Zack (alter-ego Maija Woof), and David Zack.