It's funny you should bring that up... My wife and I visited the Guggenheim a number of years ago, and came across Robert Rauschenberg's "White Paintings", whi

It's funny you should bring that up... My wife and I visited the Guggenheim a number of years ago, and came across Robert Rauschenberg's "White Paintings", which even as I am a fan of minimalism, seemed kind of silly. All the while, we decided that we would one day duplicate the paintings for our own house. If it's good enough for the Guggenheim... A year or so later, we bought four canvases, some gesso and some white paint, and made four white paintings, and upon hanging them up, found that it actually looked really nice. We did some research on the original "White Paintings" series, and discovered that John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg were friends, and that 4'33" was "a direct response" to the White Paintings. http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/audio/aop_tour_404 http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/audio/aop_tour_404 It was doubly cool because while I've worked in the visual arts, my wife is a composer. These seemingly silly paintings have come with us to our new house, and hang in the living room, and I'm quite fond of them, even though they required fairly minimal effort for my wife and I to create. Hooray for minimalism!