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An iconic figure in avant-garde art in America during the 1950s, the composer and artist John Cage is noted in particular for his controversial 1952 'musical composition' 4 minutes 33 seconds (4'33") (which contained not a single note of music), along with his teachings at Black Mountain College on a variety of artistic topics: these include Indian Sand Painting, forms of Performance art such as Happenings (eg. the Cage "Event" of 1952), as well as more conventional printmaking (mostly etchings). He exerted a significant influence on American art during the 1950s, notably on the work of pioneer performer Allan Kaprow (1927-2006), pop artists Jasper Johns (b.1930) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), the abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell (1915-91) and the dancer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), and heralded such movements as Neo-Dada, European Fluxus and methods like junk art. A student of painting, architectu