Not exact matches
Of course, his father, Robert
Ryman, long ago made the bolts that mount a
painting part of the work, both binding it to the wall and
setting it apart.
By the time you enter the space
set aside for
paintings and sculptures by the Minimalists Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Robert
Ryman, and Jo Baer, the austerity and rigor of these works could not be been more pronounced.
He also
sets up a dialogue between
painting and sculpture, with echoes of Robert
Ryman's abstract works running throughout.
Within the strict parameters he
sets himself,
Ryman varies the type of support, type of
paint and brushwork to explore the limitless possibilities involved pictorial creation.
Stella may have
set an example for
Ryman by insisting that all the action in a
painting, including the interplay of materials, must show itself for what it is.
Ryman himself contributed to the design of the 1988 exhibition,
setting the model for measuring galleries against his
paintings and letting natural light filter through windows and skylights during daytime.
The museum's contemporary collection consists of over 5,500 works and is defined as holdings dating from 1970 to the present, although some earlier pieces which would have
set the stage for artists working in the subsequent decades are also included in this exhibition, including a 1967 ink drawing by Eva Hesse and a 1959 Robert
Ryman painting.
Ryman's method — an act of «learning by doing» — as well as his conception of
painting as «used
paint»
set him apart from second - generation abstract expressionists, minimalists, or conceptualists.