| Aleatoric Art - Composition depending upon chance, random accident, or highly improvisational execution, typically hoping to attain freedom from the past, from academic formulas, and the limitations placed on imagination by the conscious mind. There is an ancient tradition of Japanese and Chinese artists employing aleatoric methods, many influenced by Taoism and Zen Buddhism. In the west, precedents can be found among the many artists of ancient Greece, and later among many of the artists of the Italian Renaissance. ...now enter the future of chance in fine art. |
HOLDING OUT by Ted Lincoln, 2011