Fluxus

Fluxus is a network of artists, composers, and designers that blend different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. The media the artists use consit of visual art, music, literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. The word Fluxus originated from Latin which means "to flow". Fluxus was loosely organized by Maciunas. The community that was formed from this art period was small but formed into a global network of artists and composers who already where working artists before Maciunas met them.

Fluxus encouraged the "do it yourself method" where the artists preferred to work with any materials available. They either created there own work or collaborated with their colleagues. The fluxus style valued simplicity over complexity. Fluxus is similar to the earlier movement of Dada. Fluxux emphasized the concept of anti-art and took bigger risks of focusing over the seriousness of modern art just like Dada. Fluxus artists used their minimal performances to highlight their perceived connection with everyday objects. Fluxus art was usually presented in events which was defined as "the smallest unit of a situation. The events consisted of a minimal instruction allowing the event to be open to accidents and other sporadic outcomes.

There are four key factors that define the majority of the Fluxus work. First off Fluxus is an attitude where it does not stand as a movement or style. It is intermedia, the creators like to see what happens when they use different medias to intersect the piece. They use everyday objects that are found consisting of sounds, images, and texts to create a new combination of objects, sounds, and texts. The work is simple, the art is small, the performance is brief and the text is short. It is fun and humorous.



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Playing with Behaviors of Everyday Laife

The performance that I experienced today was very interesting and exciting. I enjoyed this fun creative activity. My partner and I both responded the same way, a little confused but open to the idea. When Leslie made a face in her mirror I copied that face as best as possible as we both walked apart. By the time we got so far apart that we could barely see each other in our mirrors I was deeply interested. The fact that i was making eye contact with someone so far away from the point of view of standing 30ft away facing back to back looking in a mirror from behind, was fascinating. We both laughed at the fact we where performing such a new "out of the box" assignment. I did not know what to expect in this project since it was so new to me. I only expected the sensation of having fun. Although I did think the activity would last a bit longer.

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

From 1915 to 1923 Duchamp worked on creating The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even very carefully throughout the years. The piece was executed on two planes of glass using materials of lead foil, fuss wire, and dust. Duchamp made lots of notes and studies and complex theories about how the piece works. He published the notes and studies as The Green Box. The notes describe his piece depicting the "Bride", thats found in the upper panel, and her nine "Bachelors" found in a gathering in the lower panel around lots of mechanical devices having erratic encounters. The Bride is very mechanical looking like shadings of geometric forms. She is connected to her halo with a cloudy form stretching across the top. There is a chocolate grinder that contains three drum- like forms around a circular platform with three small legs that are supporting her structure. " The Large Glass is a picture of the unseen forces that shape human erotic activity- the realm of ego, desires, and other mysteries"(Stafford). Duchamp calls the boundary between the bride and her Bachelors "the garment of the bride" which might refer to her clothing but also to the boundary of her body. The Glider introduces chances where the bachelors slide back and forth between them and the Bride. The Scissors that are powered by two huge blades are for threatening the Eyewitnesses. Duchamps art is not simply interpreted considering the notes and diagrams he made for his project as a guidebook actually complicates it more. He describes elements that were not in the final version and don't seem to exist.

I appreciate the creativity, brilliance, and dedication that went into this piece. I find the piece so interesting that makes me find me find the artist more interesting. Yes the piece is complex and deep but that only reflects the artist mind which is now more interesting to me. I think anyone has the capacity of inventing a creative process like Duchamp you just have to have the patience and a really good since of realty to get abstract minded. It got the recognition because it was purely original and and complex. Duchamps piece can be looked at in several different ways, as for me I see this only being a visual interpretation of the human nature.