Performing arts

In 1958 a lot of artists and composers and other people who wanted to do beautiful things began to look at the world around them in a new way. When they saw that, it turned their minds on. They began to ask questions like: "Why does everything I see that's beautiful like cups and kisses have to be made into just a part of something fancier and bigger? Why can't I just use it for its own sake? When they asked questions like that, they were inventing Fluxus.
They did "concerts" of everyday living; and they gave exhibitions of what they found, where they shared the things that they liked best with whoever would come. Everything was itself, it wasn't part of something bigger and fancier.
These people were: In America George Brecht, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, Jackson MacLow , Nam June Paik. In Germany Wolf Vostell, Ben Patterson and Emmett Williams, and plenty of others.

In my opinion Fluxus had a life of its own, apart from the people in it. It is simple things, taken for themselves and not just as part of bigger things. It is something that many of us must do, at least part of the time. It is inside of us, it is part of how we are. It isn't just a bunch of things and dramas but is part of how we live. It might be more than words.

Performance

In class each one of us had to take a piece of paper with a line on it and copy it on an eight inch square, keeping the same orientation that it had originally. After made the copies, we placed them on the wall three squares per line, top to bottom, and right to left. After repeating the same process several times, the final composition turned out very interesting.

As a result, the individual different pieces were connected to each other creating a very well organized and geometric composition. In addition, when the activity was over I realized that this is a very creative technique of working with simple shapes; not only because it has a lot of potential regarding the compositional matter, but also the final piece after the activity is performed is always different.

Changing the perception of space( Video)

Changing the Perception of Space

The experience required to put a mirror of about 8x4 inches in from of your eyes and walk watching the reflection of the ceiling instead than the ground. What happened is that even though you kind of know how your environment looks like, you experience being in another type of space that is the result of the changes in what you know and what you see.

Playing With Behavior

The playing behavior of everyday life was actually find a partner, stand back to back and walk away in the mean time I was watching my partner making face in her mirror on my mirror.
The sensation of seeing her face separated of her body was quite new and different if you see it this way. It is like you are losing the connection physically because the bodies walk away but you are still connected by the look. In fact this look connection gets more intensive and I was trying to keep see her against of the fact of increasing distance.

the bride by Marcel Duchamp

When Marcel Duchamp created the bride (1923) Painting were necessarily static; instead his project offers
multiples conceptual views, but with a completely new approach. Duchamp was able to give to this project a
new perspective for his time not only because it appeal to the eyes but also he wanted to create a new kind of
art, that would engage the mind.

He used this piece of art as a form of expression of feeling and thoughts that needed to be materialized in a
new and different way. Consequently, this masterpiece reflects the way of thinking of a specific moment in
time in one place of the world.

As a conclusion this work of art opened a completely new universe of thinking about art.

Pattern

Patterns are modular composition based in a simple unit (design). This units are organized and grouped by different geometric rules like repetition, rotation, mirror, and reverse on the X and Y axis to create a composition. These compositions and technique are usually used in floor tile, prints, fabrics and more. The possible combinations are unlimited not only because of the units organization but also when color is added the final results could be amazing.

Gestalt image

Gestalt Figure or Ground

Man profile or ducks in the lake?

Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied. These principles are: similarity, continuation, closure and proximity. The eye differentiates an object form and its surrounding area.
A form or shape is naturally perceived as figure (object), while the surrounding area is perceived as ground (background).Using figure/ground relationships I created this picture that either you see a profile of a man or you see two ducks swimming in the water of a lake.

Grey scale composition

connection lines

The experience was very interesting not only because we had the chance to materialize a line in a 3 dimensional space but also approach the concept of composition and space in a very different point of view. In addition to work in class the teacher provided us with big balls of strings to create line composition linking different elements and after a while undo it.
As a conclusion it was fun and constructive.

line or shape

the line is the option B and D
the shapes are C and A
what make them a line is that they have a begining and an end even though the the direction or the size change. And what make them shapes is that the shapes are a union of lines.

Critique

The piece shows a large range of compositional elements. Such as active lines, free lines, free lines with companion lines, circular planes and planar elements. The color palette combines warm and cold colors in a high key value.Even though the composition is based in planar elements there is a sense of perspective that implies the idea of being inside and outside of a room.The elements with different directions, size, and importance balance the piece showing rhythm, movement and equilibrium.
I personally like it because it is dynamic, fluid and colorful in spite of the fact that at first it sense chaotic and out of control.