Founding member of Fluxus. Other founding members include Yoko Ono (I never knew!), George Brecht, and Nam June Paik.
Above is a flux box which were small boxes holding cards and other random objects. Below is George's own interpretation of his art and the reasoning behind it.
"Fluxus art
Therefore, art-amusement must be simple, amusing, upretentious,
concerned with insignificances, require no skill or countless
rehersals, have no commodity or institutional value.
The value of art-amusement must be lowered by making it unlimited,
massproduced, obtainable by all and eventually produced by all.
Fluxus art strives for the monostructural and nontheatrical
qualities of simple natural event, a game or a gag. It is the fusion
of Spikes Jones Vaudeville, gag, children's games and Duchamp."
http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/gmaciunas-artartamusement.html ^^
I liked what that website said about Fluxus art, it seems to go along very well with the reading too. Just simple everyday things can be art too.
Fluxus was beginning to get really popular and people started changing it to their views and George didn't like that, so he became the chairman for the Fluxus movement. This way he could tell the world what Fluxus was and if people wanted to be considered Fluxus artists, they had to go by the same definition as everybody else. Real Fluxus always stayed simple.
Maciunas died in 1979, but all his hard work is still not forgotten.
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