Chance Aesthetics

Join the Math/CS club for a tour of the Kemper Art Museum show "Chance Aesthetics", led by museum educator Sydney Norton.

We will meet in the Lobby, then drive to the Museum at Skinker and Lindell on the Washington University campus.

About "Chance Aesthetics":

Dripping or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; flipping coins to compose musical scores--these are some of the processes used to incorporate chance as a decisive factor in the creation of an artwork. Beginning in the early twentieth century and moving into the1970s, Chance Aesthetics addresses chance as a key compositional principle in modern art. The exhibition features more than sixty artworks by over forty avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including work by Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Yves Tanguy, among many others.

For more information about the show, visit

http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/ChanceAesthetics