COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0006847
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Work Title (display):
Surface Veil
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1970
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2010-05-24
Work Creator (display):
Robert Ryman (American, born 1930)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American painter and printmaker. After studying at the Tennessee Polytechnical Institute, Cookeville, between 1948 and 1949, and at the George Peabody College for Teachers between 1949 and 1950, he settled in New York in 1950 and made his first monochrome abstract paintings in about 1955. He was at that time very isolated in his approach, for although he had reacted against the domination of Abstract Expressionism, he had no intention of reintroducing realism or of depicting objects. It was not until the late 1960s that he began to exhibit regularly; for example, his work was included in the important exhibition 'Systemic Painting' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1966. His work is often associated with Conceptual art, but although organized into non-representational systems, it is fundamentally a quest for pictorial expression. Ryman reduced his painting to the strict minimum: the square format and the colour white. He permutated and varied these constants by manipulating scale and texture. Small and large formats were arranged on the same wall and all sorts of media were applied to a variety of supports so that the results were always different. Ryman demonstrated that pictorial complexity can be achieved by using an extremely restricted vocabulary. He sought to heighten the viewer's sensitivity to subtle variations in the brushwork, surfaces and materials employed as well as the relation of the painted areas to the edges of the support. He also insisted on the relation of the painting to the wall on which it hangs, either by attaching it very closely, even to the point of painting the wall itself, or by detaching it in a visually obvious way. From 1976 he incorporated the hanging system into the composition of the picture, using metal fastenings whose function is both visual and practical. Close to Minimal art, Ryman's work may be distinguished from it by the importance he gave to the painted surface and to the painter's touch, using these as essential elements in his highly refined examination of the optical and material properties of the painting discipline. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-28)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
textures
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textures
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Work Subject:
displays
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displays
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Work Subject:
manipulation
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manipulation
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Work Subject:
artists' materials
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artists' materials
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Work Subject:
perception
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perception
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Work Subject:
scale (relative size)
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scale (relative size)
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Work Subject:
minimalism
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minimalism
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Work Subject:
walls
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walls
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Work Subject:
color
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color
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Work Subject:
optics
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optics
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on fiberglass with waxed paper frame and masking tape
Work Measurements (display):
47 cm (H) x 38 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
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Work Rights (display):
© Robert Ryman
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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