Description:
A fiberglass panel is painted solid white, except at the upper, left, and right edges and notches at the
upper left. There are thinly painted vertical and horizontal lines in the areas of raw fiberglass. Thez
artwork is bolted to the wall with wide aluminum fasteners, textured with a wire brush, that extend
above and below the upper and lower edges and stop short of the corners
Label Text:
Robert Ryman does not conceal any of the materials he uses to create his paintings, including the support, the edges, or the fasteners, which can be clearly seen in the Museum’s painting Strand. The artist is best known for his white paintings, produced in square formats over a period of a nearly fifty years, but with many different variations in the application of paint, technique, and approach. No one painting is like another.
Critics have attempted to describe Ryman’s paintings as Minimalist, for their insistence on revealing their materials, as Conceptual or idea-based art, or as purely abstract. The artist has resisted these categories, saying: “I don’t abstract from anything. [My work is] involved with real visual aspects of what you really are looking at, whether it’s wood, or you see the paint, and the metal, and how it’s put together and how it works with the wall and how it works with the light.”
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