As I sit here listening to my leaky kitchen faucet all I can think about is George Brecht's Drip Music, which leads to my concentrating on other random and normally unnoticed sounds that may be considered art by Fluxus artists.
The counter-cultural anti-art idea that is imposed by Fluxus artists is rather appealing in a sense that they really don't care to stick to any specific predefined rules about how to make art, or how to define it. They do not conform to the orthodox, unconventional idea of art and go about making it in ways that have not really been done before. Before the Fluxus movement was really defined by George Maciunas, art was always about sticking to its labels and conforming to a specific idea. Their rebellious avante-garde movement in art especially fits into its time period, during the 60's when rebellion was becoming a large and important aspect in the U.S.
Out of the many Fluxus artists, I especially enjoy the work done by Nam June Paik, due to his innovative use of video as art. His piece with the woman screaming with a live video of her on each of her breasts is one of his most intriguing pieces, for me. I also highly enjoy his piece "Magnet Tv" in which he sticks a very strong magnet on top of a tube TV so the picture becomes irritated and disturbed. His idea of taking a video that is supposed to be viewed one way as previously determined by someone else and controlling the way it is portrayed and creating his own picture is exciting.
I find the irony that comes with Fluxus art to be rather comical. As this type of art is much about involvement of people and portrayal of an idea rather than a business, many Fluxus artists are now relatively famous whose pieces sell for large sums of money.
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