Taking a Chance
Taking a Chance |
| Gerhard Richter "The Cage Paintings" |
This article by Anna Souter is about her looks at the importance of losing control in art and music. Her think taking a chance is important to her and artist. So her choice John Cage and Gerhard Richter to talk about how they taking a choice in their art works. For John Cage and Gerhard they both connect chance with music and art.
Gerhard Richter is most famous painter in the Twentieth century, he never met with John Cage, but he like listen John Cage's music, so he painted a series " The Cage Paintings" which is in inspired from John Cage.
I think music is abstract, and John Cage's music are experimental music which means more abstract, he took "1 Ching" theory to make art work, try to more free and follow the chance. It makes his music are very different with another artist . John Cage said:"I have noting to say and I am saying it." this is like his 4'33'', also this words impact on Gerhard Richter's painting, he use abstract painting to represent John Cage's music. "The Cage Paintings" are Gerhard Richter's beautiful way of saying nothing.
I think since impressionism painting start to focus on colors , abstract painting come into a form, artist began to focus on some detail, not just painting every thing. artist had choice to painting what they want, also more follow the felling or chance. Abstract Painting can express music, like each colors can represent different music note, use major or minor,black or white, and put together ,make harmonious.
NEW WORDS:
exponent: (n), a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
polemical:(adj), arguing very strongly for or against a belief or opinion.
Questions:
1. What was the author doing when she was in primary school?
2.Who is John Cage? Which work is his most famous work?
3.Which book inspired John Cage?
4.Why did the author chose John Cage and Gerhard Richter?
5.What is the main idea of this article?
1. In primary school, her teacher's favourite methods was to put on a piece of classical music and tell students to interpret it in another medium.
ReplyDelete2. He represented the meeting-points of art and music, and he is a crucial person in history as an exponent of experimental music. His one of famous work is the 4'33''.
3. He received a copy of the ancient Chinese text, I Ching. The book contains a system of divination in which outcomes are determined solely by chance.
4. Although the two men never met, they were both equally impressed with one another's work
5. The indeterminate elements of everyday life spill over into our experience of art and we find ourselves, like the artist, taking a chance.