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Robert Ryman

5/30/2019

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- An American painter identified with the movements of monochromatic painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. Best known for abstract white on white paintings.
- Ryman was often classified as a "Realist", because he was not interested in creating illusions, but only in presenting the materials he used in compositions at their face value.
- "I am not a picture painter.  I work with real light and space, and since real light is an important aspect of the paintings, it always presents some problems."
- The majority of his paintings (works) feature abstract expressionist-like brushwork in white or off-white paint on square canvas or metal surfaces.  A lifelong experimenter with media, he painted and/or drew on canvas, linen, steel, Aluminum, plexiglass, lumasite, vinyl, fiberglass, corrugated paper, burlap, newsprint, wallpaper, jute sacking, fiber plate, a composite material called gator board, feather board, handmade paper, and acrilivin.  He painted and/or drew with oil, acrylic, encaustic, Lascaux acrylic, casein, enamel, pastel, oil pastel, graphite, gauche, and enamelac.  He also experimented with printmaking.
- Ryman "There is never any question of what to paint only how to paint".
- "Classico" Series
- "Surface Veil" works
- 12 foot Square Paintings
- 1975-late 90s he affixed paintings to the wall with metal brackets. 
- He stated that his paintings titles were meaningless, and that they only existed as a form of identification.  He preferred "Name" instead of "Title" because he was referencing only the paint and materials. 
- He painted works where theme and medium are one.
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