This document discusses several composer-artist collaborations. It describes John Cage working with choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Robert Rauschenberg, breaking down divisions between art forms. It also discusses Cage collaborating with painter Jackson Pollock, who took opposing creative approaches. Additionally, it describes composer Igor Stravinsky's pioneering ballet The Rite of Spring created with choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky and designer Nicholas Roerich for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Finally, it mentions composer Philip Glass collaborating with visual artist Sol Lewitt and choreographer Lucida Childs on adaptations of Glass's compositions.

1. ABSTRACT
COMPOSERS AND
VISUAL ARTISTSTHEY
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By Aslesha and Emma 9BB

2. John Cage
■ JohnCage (composer), Robert Rauchenburg (artist), Merce Cunningham
(choreographer).
■ John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist
■ He is best known for revolutionizing modern music through his incorporation of
unconventional instrumentation and the idea of environmental music dictated by
chance.
■ Cage is famous not only for his radical works, like 4'33" (1952), but also for his
innovative collaborations with artists like Merce Cunningham and Robert
Rauschenberg.
■ These partnerships helped break down the divisions between the various realms of art
production, such as music, performance, painting, and dance, allowing for new
interdisciplinary work to be produced.

3. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, London, 1964.

4. John Cage (composer), Jackson Pollock (artist)
■ Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history.
■ Pollock and Cage were aesthetic extremes of each other.
■ Pollock sought to make paintings that were entirely an expression of his
manic inner ego, whereas Cage fought to remove himself completely
from the decision-making process involved in art.
■ And yet, Pollock and Cage did have one thing in common.They shared a
common adversary: hundreds of years of European history, theory, and
dominance in the arts.

5. Jackson Pollock and John Cage
Jackson Pollock, “Orange Head” (c. 1938-41), oil on canvas, 18 3/4 x 15 3/4
inches

6. Igor Stravinsky
■ Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian
(and later, a naturalized French and
American) composer, pianist and conductor.
■ He is widely considered one of the most
important and influential composers of the
20th century.
■ He first achieved international fame with
three ballets commissioned and first
performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes:The Firebird (1910),Petrushka (1911)
andThe Rite of Spring (1913).

7. Igor Stravinksy (composer), Serge Diaghilev (impresario),
Nicholas Roerich (set & costume designer)
■ The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert
work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
■ It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original
choreography was byVaslav Nijinsky, with stage
designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
■ It is widely considered to be one of the most
influential musical works of the 20th century.

8. Igor Stravinsky and Pina Bausch
■ To celebrate its hundredth anniversary,
several danced versions of The Rite of
Spring were presented, from the
‘scandalous’ Nijinsky work created in
collaboration with Igor Stravinsky.
■ It premiered at the very same theatre
on the 29th May, 1913, to the landmark
1975 ‘contemporary’ staging of the
work by Pina Bausch, when she
covered the stage with damp earth.
■ These two outstanding versions have
rarely been surpassed.
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Tanztheater Wuppertal
Choreography: Pina Bausch

9. Philip Glass
PhilipGlass is anAmerican composer, and
is known as one of the most known
influential music composers of the 20th
century.
He was born on January 31, 1937,
in Baltimore, Maryland and is currently 78
years old.
He attended the university of Chicago,
Peabody institute and Julliard School.
He is known to have produced music for
the Fantastic Four, Mr. nice, Elena and
many more.
Some of his famous compositions include
Einstein on the Beach,The Perfect
American, the voyage, Symphony no.4
etc.

10. Phillip Glass (composer), Sol Lewitt (visual
artist & film), Lucida Childs (choreography)
PhilipGlass has collaborated with
Lucida Childs to perform a dance on
Einstein on the Beach.
He has also worked with Sol Lewitt to
create other dance routines along side
the compositions that Glass has
created.

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