Tuesday 18 October 2011

Post Modernism: Fluxus

"Fluxus encouraged a do it yourself aesthetic, and valued simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand, and either created their own work or collaborated in the creation process with their colleagues. Fluxus can be viewed as part of the first phase of postmodernism, along with Rauschenberg, Johns, Warhol and the Situationist International." - Wikipedia
While researching post modernism I cam across the Fluxus art movement. I had heard of this movement before over the past three weeks and decided that this would be a great opportunity to learn a few things about this mysterious movement. Above I have pasted a quote from Wikipedia and used the "Bold" tool to highlight any words or sentences that relate to postmodernism. I found out that some artists that I have looked at before inspired the Fluxus movement and in turn Fluxus was the starting point of postmodernism.

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