New Rivers Watercolors, no. 13 from: Series III
Details
Exhibition:
The sight of silence, John Cage’s complete watercolours, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke 2011, cat. no. 31, with col. illus. p. 97.
Provenance:
Private collection, Southern Germany.
Description
“When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.” John Cage
John Cage war einer der führenden Avantgarde-Komponisten des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, am bekanntesten vielleicht für sein stummes Werk “4:33” von 1952. Er war lebenslang mit bildender Kunst eng vertraut, begann aber erst mit Mitte sechzig selbst als bildender Künstler zu arbeiten. In den letzten 15 Jahren seines Lebens schuf Cage über 600 Druckgrafiken bei der Crown Point Press in San Francisco sowie 260 Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Dabei wandte er die gleichen zufallsbestimmten Verfahren an, die ihn auch bei seinen musikalischen Kompositionen leiteten.
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