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Robert Ryman — White Paintings
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Surface as Painting
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Systems of Clarity
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Origin:
New York
Era:
1960s–1990s
Themes / Lineage:
surface • reduction • material
Field Notes:
surface material • reduction • paint
Quiet Modernism appears here as painting reduced to surface condition.

Surface as Painting

Robert Ryman — White Paintings

The surface asserts itself as medium.

Depth recedes.

Painting remains.

What asserts itself?
Surface is often subordinate to depth, yet it claims primacy. Illusion recedes. What continues is painting held at the surface.

Surface is often subordinate to depth, yet it claims primacy.

Illusion recedes.

What continues is painting held at the surface.

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