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New Epoch Art

Learn about New Epoch Notation Painting

Featured Work

Dance Of Life and Portrait Of A Square Split (Self Portrait) by Philip Mitchell Graham

This New Epoch visual score has nothing to do with music as such, but it has the same function that a conventional music score has for a musical performance. The images are intended to evolve in front of a live audience. To use the score download the jpg and print it out. Dance of a Life was a semi improvised score Peter created with me during one of our collaborative workshops in 1986. Its very primitive, but produces a very striking set of paintings. Portrait Of A Square Split (Self Portrait) Was the first score ‘from beyond the grave’. I created it based on my translation and adaptation of a prototype score written by Peter in 1976. Peter Benjamin Graham never painted the image described in the score. So it became the first work of visual art to be composed in a notated form and first realised after the death of the composer.
Tag Team painting. by badenjohnsonart

Composed by Baden johnson & Euan Graham / Painted by Baden Johnson / painted for an art competion “Inspired” / At Heritage Hill in Dandenong. / This is an example of New Epoch Action Painting

Recent Work

New Epoch Art Experience! by badenjohnsonart

New Epoch Art Experience! Produced by Extended Vision / Melbourne Fringe Festival 09 / Charles Smith Gallery, 65 Smith St, Fitzroy / 28/9/09 to 10/10/09 / Mon to Sat 11am to 6pm. / Goto www.melbournefringe.com.au / visual art / New Epoch Art Experience! for details.
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NEA PERFORMANCE…Achieving a balance between score, painting, and keeping the audience in mind will tax all the wit, intelligence, imagination, knowledge …
NEA Carasell Trieasil by Philip Mitchell Graham

The first Trieasil prototype for NEA performance shown here in my Canterbury Studio in 1988. The Trieasil is shown in ‘standby mode’ without canvases. Built in 1987 by myself, my brother Euan Benjamin Graham and my friend Peter Bradly. This Trieasil no longer exists in this form. In 1991 members of Extended Vision converted it into a Quadeasil.
Battle of Bannock Burn Country Fair, Sunday 14/6/09 by badenjohnsonart

Baden Johnson did an N.E.A. demonstration at the fair. / Giving members of the local community the opportunity to paint, from an N.E.A. score
Visual Jazz, Thematic Orchestration Detail by badenjohnsonart

This painting is an example of improvised interactive painting using the geometry of Thematic Orchestration. / The term visual jazz came from the concept of a group of paintist improvising together like jazz musicians do in a jazz band. It was painted in 1992 by five paintists, including 3 members of Extended Vision. Philip Mitchell Graham, Baden C Johnson & Euan Benjamin Graham. This was a part of a series of Visual Jazz pieces, painted on wedge shaped canvas and assembled together to make a large circle. Which surrounded the Tri-easel. / This a detail shot. The BP is not a square.
Tag Team Score Composed by: Baden Johnson & Euan Graham by badenjohnsonart

Painted using a N.E.A. score [notation system] / Painted at Palm Plaza, Dandenong, Melbourne. 0n 9/5/09 / painted by members of the public as they passed by over a period of about 5 hours. / In total about 30 people painted it, including children and adults. Look at footage on: / www.youtube.com/newepochart Look in GROUPS: New Epoch Art / Join our watch list.
Tag Team painting. by badenjohnsonart

Composed by Baden johnson & Euan Graham / Painted by Baden Johnson / painted for an art competion “Inspired” / At Heritage Hill in Dandenong. / This is an example of New Epoch Action Painting
Dance Of Life and Portrait Of A Square Split (Self Portrait) by Philip Mitchell Graham

This New Epoch visual score has nothing to do with music as such, but it has the same function that a conventional music score has for a musical performance. The images are intended to evolve in front of a live audience. To use the score download the jpg and print it out. Dance of a Life was a semi improvised score Peter created with me during one of our collaborative workshops in 1986. Its very primitive, but produces a very striking set of paintings. Portrait Of A Square Split (Self Portrait) Was the first score ‘from beyond the grave’. I created it based on my translation and adaptation of a prototype score written by Peter in 1976. Peter Benjamin Graham never painted the image described in the score. So it became the first work of visual art to be composed in a notated form and first realised after the death of the composer.
Landscape and Still life, Still Life and Landscape by Philip Mitchell Graham

This New Epoch visual score has nothing to do with music as such, but it has the same function that a conventional music score has for a musical performance. The images are intended to evolve in front of a live audience. To use the score download the jpg and print it out. Composed by my father, Peter Benjamin Graham in 1986 and finished by me in 1987, ‘L+S’ as it became known, was Peter’s last practical contribution to the New Epoch Project, and the first completed NEA score in history. I created “L+S’ as a duet master score, showing the development of both basic planes simultaneously. L + S was the only score ever completed by Peter Benjamin Graham to the extent that it required almost no conceptual additions by me regarding the actual composition. This score formed my template for defining the first version of the New Epoch Art Notation system. My challenge was to standardise the notation to contain the score and to allow easy expansion of the system. Any idiosyncratic element that I judged to be unique to this score had to addressed in a peripheral manner within the structure of the notation. Defining ‘what kind of score’ is was from a utilitarian point of view was a difficult issue because it had never been done before. Exactly what was the purpose of this particular score? A theoretical exercise? An archival exercise? or a working prototype? And if this score was to be ‘the prototype’, what kind of tests should I put it through?

About This Group

This is a meeting place for all practitioners of New Epoch Notation Painting, a notation based interactive performance art pioneered in Australia by Peter Benjamin Graham in 1964 and developed by his sons Philip Mitchell Graham and Euan Benjamin Graham from 1987.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benjamin_Graham

Look at NEA Performance video footage on: www.youtube.com/newepochart

Exhibtion & performances will be part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009
Gallery: Charles Smith Gallery,
65 Smith St, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Exhibition Runs From: Monday 28/9/09 to Saturday 10/10/09

TIMES: 11am to 6pm

Opening: 6 to 8 pm Thursday 1st of October.

Special matinee demonstration performances: 1pm to 3pm Wednesday 30/9/09 & Saturday 10/10/09
Where you the audience can participate and paint. performances are free.

GOTO: www.melbournefringe.com.au

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