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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