 With John Cage's influence, he became less and less focused on the product of painting, and instead on the action.Kaprow began teaching at Rutgers University in 1953.While there, he helped to create the Fluxus group, along with professors Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein, artists George Brecht and George Segal, and undergraduates Lucas Samaras and Robert Whitman.