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Fluxus movement
The Fluxus movement originated in the 1960's in New York, later spreading to Japan and New York. The movement's style reduces gestures and mixes the ideals of the Dada, Bauhaus, and Zen movements.

 


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KEY DATES:1960-1965
The Fluxus movement emerged in New York in the 60's, moving to Europe, and eventually to Japan. The movement encompassed a new aesthetic that had already appeared on three continents.

Fluxus-a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"-is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s.

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Art History: Fluxus: (1962 - 1975)
Literally meaning "a flow," the Fluxus movement advocated a shift from aesthetics to ethics in artistic values.

Fluxus
Informal international group of avant-garde artists working in a wide range of media and active from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.

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Fluxus (1960s): all media. Fluxus, literally meaning 'to flow,' refers to the movement during the 1960s which combined a variety of techniques and media in the visual arts, music, literature, and design.

Fluxus was an international network of "intermedia" artists of the 1960s who worked in fields ranging from music to performance to the visual arts.

fluxus - flow, change, dadaistic art embodying spontaneity and humor, experimentation mixed with social and political activism, as in guerilla or street theater; avoidance of limiting art theories and a spurning of pure aesthetic objectives; ...

Lyrical Abstraction along with the Fluxus movement and Postminimalism (a term first coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in the pages of Artforum in 1969) sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting and Minimalism by focusing on process, ...

Italian Futurism rejected tradition and worshipped the machine, Dadaist used shock tactics and feared optimism, Fluxus focused on the state of mind of the artist rather than the objet d'art, Conceptualists had great thought and little product, ...

The expression "concept art" was used in 1961 by Henry Flynt in a Fluxus publication, but it was to take on a different meaning when it was used by Joseph Kosuth (American, 1945-) and the Art & Language group (Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, ...

Copy Art, Eat Art, Neo-Geo, Fluxus, Mail Art, Equipo Cronica, Mec Art, Groupe Zebra, BMPT, Arte Povera, Body Art, Narrative Art, Cooperative des Malassis, Lowbrow, East Village, Panique Szafran, Appropriation Simulation, Bad Painting, Demoscene, ...

There was a resurgence after the war and into the 1950s of the figurative, as Neo-Dada, Fluxus, Conceptual Art, Neo-expressionism, Installation art, Performance Art, Video Art and Pop art have come to signify the age of consumerism.

gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement influenced later styles, movements, and groups including Surrealism, Pop Art and Fluxus.

and today there is scarcely an artist working with materials other than paint who does not refer to Schwitters in some way. In his bold and wide-ranging experiments he can be seen as the grandfather of Pop Art, Happenings, Concept Art, Fluxus, ...

say that the name Dada is a nonsensical word chosen at random from a dictionary. Many artists associated with this movement later became associated with Surrealism. Many other movements have been influenced by Dada, including Pop Art and Fluxus.

See also: Movement, Painting, Expression, Sculpture, Dada

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