Fluxus

The idea of finding beauty and art in everyday things is a concept that appeals to me.  If one slows down and takes the time to be mindful of their surroundings, they will see there are many interesting things all around them.  Art should not only be for the elite and intellectuals.  The Fluxus community brought art to the masses but not in a commercial, lowest common denominator, sort of way.  They only wanted to bring a heightened state of awareness to the things we normally would consider banal and not give a second thought to.  In keeping with this philosophy, Fluxus artists used cheap, easily accessible material and did not allow museums and the intelligentsia to have a monopoly over it.