nut art

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Nut Art.

   … and three additional participants in the San Francisco milieu: Nebraska-born Roy De Forest (1930–2007), known for what he called "nut art"—bright, busy animal paintings suggesting equal appreciation for folk art and surrealism …

   2018 October 4, Ann Lee Morgan, “Funk Art”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, 2 edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

alternative nut art

1. uncountableA minor art movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s that was concerned with self-identification, sometimes involving the creation of a new persona, through fantastical or mythical elements.

   Closely allied to Nut Art was the Chicago Imagist school of painting, also known as the Hairy Who.

   1984, Michael Crane, Mary Stofflet, Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity, Contemporary Arts Press, →ISBN, page 112

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   Nut Art in fact was a major art-historical invention, as it's ^([sic]) the first art movement to consist of fifteen people all working in different styles.

   1973, David Zack, “An Authentik and Historikal Discourse on the Phenomenon of Mail Art”, in Frank Jewett Mather, editor, Art in America, volume 61, page 51

   Although the movement didn't become a household word like Pop or Dada, Nut Art's penchant for blurring the lines between correspondence art, conceptual art, painting, and sculpture has made it a touchstone for a new generation of artists.

   2017, Garth Johnson, “Lecture: Fluxing Funk: Nut Art”, in NCECA Journal, volume 38, page 131