Iconography

This project was interesting because I never realized how difficult it is to simplify objects into icons. Its hard to get the idea across in the same fashion. In my project I picked a picture of a girl jumping with an umbrella. It was easy to outline with the pen tool in illustrator because of the practice I had from previous projects. I think that it looked very nice and I would like to incorporate silhouette in future artwork. Simplifying was harder because I felt the need to add more detail then was necessary to the image. I think the final outcome turned out well. Last was the elaborate and i thought that was really hard. I made snowflakes out of the girls and had them walking each other. I was kind of a twisted picture and I meant for people to have to stop and look closely at it.
All in all i really enjoyed this because it was something new and different. I think it was interesting to look at things and be able to simplify them. I have a greater respect for logos and other images that are similar to them.

The piece that e made today in class was a representation of LeWitt. We took pieces of paper and drew shapes on them that we picked randomly from a bowl. I didn't like how it turned out because when there are random shapes like that my mind enjoys patterns and there isn't any. I think that if it turned out to be more of a pattern i would enjoy looking at it more. I mite like it more too if we did it with big black markers or if all the lines where perfectly straight. I liked the idea but just not how our piece turned out.

I participated in Jake's activity with Chris and Chris's activity with Jake. I also did Sara's performance too. I had fun doing them, they were easy and didn't take to much time. Jack's activity i had to smoke a cig with Chris and we had to light them together. That was nice because i like doing that but it was really cold outside. Chris's activity was to give high fives really fast and walk back and forth. That wasn't to fun because Jack gives really hard high fives and it made my hand sting. Sara's was fun because i had to act like Diana and pretend to act like her. It wasn't hard for me because i live with her and see her all the time. Shannon had to be me and that was weird because she doesn't know me very well. It was nice to see the activities on paper and then see them come to life.
My activity was to stand on someone else's feet and then walk with them. Thiana and Sharron did mine and I don't think they really liked doing it to much. You have to talk to the other person and predict where they will put there foot next. I got this idea from when my dad and i would do something similar when i was a little girl. He wold always have me stand on his feet and walk with him. It was a little different now because the people were bigger and didn't know each other as well. It was fun to do all of these things and see them done as well.

Fluxus

Fluxus is a latin word mean "to flow". The concept of Fluxus started with composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of chance in art. Fluxus was named and loosely organized by Maciunas. The Fluxus community began in a small but global network of artists and composers who were already at work when Maciunas met them through poet Jackson Mac Low in the early 1960s. In its early days Fluxus artists were active in Europe (especially in Germany), and Japan as well as in the United States.
People who practiced Fluxus beleived in 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. In terms of an artistic approach, Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand.
Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style. Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief. Fluxus is fun. Humour has always been an important element in Fluxus. Fluxus canbe done by anyone at anytime and is ment to express your iner feelings and movements.