Randomness...

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A website featuring Oblique Strategies as well as some other concepts that relate to "randomness".

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http://random.grama.co/flickr.php

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Peter Schmidt, an Australia link...

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http://cs.nga.gov.au/SEARCH.cfm?CREIRN=22068&ORDER_SELECT=1&VIEW_SELECT=6

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These images were recently posted to the National Gallery of Australia's website.

The works were discovered to be in the collection by Rory Walsh, and were just photographed.

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Peter's world...

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Untitled

Peter Schmidt

1971

Ink on paper, 102 x 76 cm

(Collection of the Schmidt Family)

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Don't It?...

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From the files of Rory Walsh.
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"The Thoughts...", September 24,2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"

Peter Schmidt

2010

Web version

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"Monoprint" from Lisson Gallery show...

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"Monoprint" IX

(Lisson Gallery)

Peter Schmidt

1968

Collage with overprinting, 59" x 38"

(provenance unknown)

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The Boyle Family - 77 Billion Paintings...

. Mark Boyle . The Boyle Family . 77 Million Paintings

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Images from The Boyle Family's
light show at a UFO Club performance

by the Soft Machine, 1967.

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Peter Schmidt and The Boyle Family collaborated

on many performances that incorporated sounds by

Peter and images by Mark Boyle and Joan Hills.

www.boylefamily.co.uk

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Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV2Co4X4pw

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Untitled "Frame Painting"...

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Untitled

(Frame Painting Series)

Peter Schmidt

1973

Oil on canvas

(Provenance unknown)

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Lisson Gallery "Monoprint"...

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"Autobiographical Monoprint" - XIII
(Lisson Gallery)

Peter Schmidt

1968

Collage with overprinting, 59" x 38"

(Provenance unknown)

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Peter Schmidt's own thoughts...

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A photo of Peter's own copy of

"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"

(Collection of Esme)
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"Permutation Crucifix"...

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"Permutation Crucifix"

Peter Schmidt

1972

Oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm

(Provenance unknown)

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"The Thoughts...", September 17, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind The Thoughts"

Peter Schmidt

2010

Web version
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"Treading", I Ching Hexagram...

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"Treading"

Peter Schmidt

I Ching Hexagram Series, 1972

Rapidograph on card stock

One of 64 drawings based on the various hexagrams of the I Ching

(Provenance unknown)

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A gouache...

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Untitled Gouache No. 2

Peter Schmidt

1971

Gouache on paper

No. 2 of 5 in this series

(Provenenace unknown)

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Untitled...

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Untitled

Peter Schmidt

1971

Rapidiograph with acrylic wash

126 x 102 cm

(Provenance unknown)

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"Monoprint"...

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"Monoprint"

(Curwen)

Peter Schmidt

1968

Silk screen and hand applied ink on board

38 x 53 cm

(Peovenance unknown)

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I Ching - Hexagram: "Fire over water"...

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"Fire over water"

Peter Schmidt

I Ching Hexagram Series, 1972

One of 64 drawings

Rapidiograph on card stock

(Provenance unknown)

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I Ching - Hexagram statement...

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Peter's description of the elusive I Ching based "hexagram" series of drawings.

From his "Summary of Work II".
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"Permutation, Autumn"...

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"Permutation, Autumn"

Peter Schmidt
1972

Oil on canvas

(Provenance unknown)

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Something to think about..

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"

Peter Schmidt

1970

Sentences(55), press type on print fragments, a plywood box, a perspex lid

Edition of 100

(Collection of the Schmidt Family)
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"The Thoughts..." September 10, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"

Peter Schmidt

2010

Web version

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Autobigraphical "Monoprint"...

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"Monoprint" - XII

(Lisson)

Peter Schmidt

1968

Collage, overprinted

59" x 38"

(Provenance unknown)
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"Gouache No. 1"...

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"Gouache No.1"

Peter Schmidt

1971

Gouache on paper

No. 1 in a series of five using "growth programme"

(Provenance unknown)

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"Taking Tiger Mountain", LP cover...

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"Taking Tiger Mountain"

Peter Schmidt

1974

Edition of 1500, each unique

Lithograph print using 3-9 screens

24.5" x 17.5"

(Collection of the Schmidt Family)

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Note: This one is not signed or numbered, perhaps because it is the one that was used for the front cover of Brian Eno's LP "Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)".
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"...Tacky Dots"...

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"Programmed Tacky Dots 1"

Peter Schmidt

1967

Tacky dots on board
76" x 58"

(Provenance unknown)

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"Monoprint", exhibited at Curwen...

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"Monoprint"

(Curwen)

Peter Schmidt

1968

Silk screen and ink on board

38 x 53 cm

(Provenance unknown)

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"...hung on the tree of life"...

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"The lord's prayer hung on the tree of life"

Peter Schmidt

1972

Printed matter

letter press in black and silver on card stock

(Collection of the Schmidt Family)

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"An original combination of the chrisitan prayer with the qabalistic tree of life."

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With the addition of this piece, we now have documentation

of all of Peter's known published works in our archives.

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"Programmed Invitation" to Lisson 68...

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"Programmed Invitation"
Peter Schmidt
1968
Printed matter
(Collection of the Schmidt Family)
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Untitled "Frame" series ...

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Untitled

Peter Schmidt

1973
Oil on canvas

(Provenance unknown)

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"While sandpapering a small canvas prior to working on it the 'ghost' of the stretcher came through, and I started to paint frames on the canvases. These paintings work for me on two levels: the relation of the inner rectangle to the surrounding frame, and the image contained in the inner rectangle. These images were often very slight, in some of the last paintings the inner rectangle was empty."

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Untitled wash painting...

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Untitled

Peter Schmidt

1972

Rapidiograph drawing with acrylic wash on paper

(Provenance unknown)

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More "...Thoughts"...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"(Detail)

Peter Schmidt

1970

55 sentences printed on old prints mounted

on board, a plywood box, a perspex lid
Edition of 100
(Collection of the Schmidt Family)

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"The Thoughts...", September 3, 2010...

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"The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts"

Peter Schmidt

2010

Web Version

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Originally assembled by Peter in 1970.

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"More Than Nothing"...

. Brian Eno
. Peter Schmidt
. More Than Nothing

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"More Than Nothing" Exhibit Poster

Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt

Paul Ide Gallery, Brussels, 1980

Printed matter, 60 x 37 cm

(Private collection)

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"More Than Nothing", Curated by Alain D'Hooghe

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"At Peter's suggestion, the exhibition was entitled "More Than Nothing".

We decided to dedicate it to the collaborations between Peter and Brian.

Peter produced four amazing etchings for the occasion as well as many

new water colours; we also included Eno's light box, his very first video

installation "Two Fifth Avenue", several "Taking Tiger Mountain" lithographs

and "Portrait of Eno with Allusions". Even if he didn't speak the language,

Peter helped me translate the "Oblique Strategies" into French (we had a

good time 'working' on that!). He never saw the exhibition as he passed away

totally unexpectedly a few days before the opening."

Alain D'Hooghe from Enoweb's "Allusions" page

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/allusions.html

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- From nothing to more than nothing -

"Oblique Strategies", Third Edition, 1979

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Paintings and prints...

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Curwen Gallery Exhibit Poster

Peter Schmidt

1966

Printed matter

(Collection of the Schmidt Family)

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