I was surprised to find out that John cage was also an artist as previously I had only associated him with music. Specifically his famous piece ‘4.33’ pronounced four minutes and thirty three seconds. This piece requires the musicians singular or many to not play their instruments for this length of time and for the audience to listen to the ambient sounds of where ever they are.

The specific art works that it was suggested that I investigate was a series of prints of drawing of stones. Two of these prints are replicated below.

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The paintings were created by chance operations of randomly selecting and positioning small stones on a plate, determining their orientation and tracing them with a brush.

The resultant paintings are fragile and delicate. The colours tend towards pastels and are shown starkly against the washed out backgrounds. In some ways they have a similarity to some of the experimental paintings that I worked on during Part One. In particular the piece that made for Assignment One where the colours were washed out and translucent.

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