The Latin word Fluxus means flowing, in English a flux is a flowing out. Fluxus founder Maciunas said that the purpose of Fluxus was to ‘promote a revolutionary flood and tide in art, promote living art, anti-art‘. This has strong echoes of dada, the early twentieth century art movement.
In this way, is Fluxus dead?
The Influence of Fluxus on Modern and Contemporary Art
Many Fluxus artists argue that the Fluxus movement did not end in 1978, with the death of Fluxus founder George Maciunas.
Then, what is a Fluxus event?
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product.
What is a Fluxus performance?
Fluxus was an avant-garde art movement that emerged in the late 1950s as a group of artists who had become disenchanted with the elitist attitude they perceived in the art world at the time. These artists looked to Futurists and Dadaists for inspiration, focusing especially on performance aspects of the movements.
What is the difference between Dadaism and Fluxus?
Dada argued that art was not required to be beautiful and that beauty was already dead (e.g., Tzara), while Fluxus maintained that any object could be a work of art and anyone an artist (e.g., Maciunas). Dadaists often used assemblage methods, while the Fluxus artists chose the installation (arrangement) art styles.
What was the primary belief of Fluxus?
A central Fluxus tenet was to dismiss and mock the elitist world of “high art” and to find any way possible to bring art to the masses, much in keeping with the social climate of the 1960s.
Which Fluxus artist is considered by some to be one of the most significant artists to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century?
Ben Vautier is a French artist, best known for his involvement in the Fluxus movement. He created one of the most famous Fluxus artworks – Total Art Matchbox from 1966.