Their freewheeling style and flirting with illusion also
recall white artists who did not quite play by the rules as well, like Al Held and Jack Tworkov.
Not exact matches
(Do I
recall correctly that a late de Kooning is the first painting by a living
artist to be hung in the
White House?)
The pared - down aesthetic of the series and its responsiveness to changes in surrounding light and air currents
recall the
artist's
White Paintings (1951) and are consistent with much of his other work from the early 1970s.
David Prentice, a friend of the
artist who occasionally assisted in the studio,
recalled that some of the Black paintings in Rauschenberg's collection were damaged by a careless housepainter who splashed
white paint on the works at Rauschenberg's home or studio.
Among them is «Deadpan» (1997; see picture above), a black - and -
white silent film in which the
artist stands motionless and impassive as the facade of a building quite literally falls down around his ears —
recalling a famous scene from the Buster Keaton classic «Steamboat Bill, Jr» (1928).
We can
recall 2010's «Shut Your Eyes in Order to See», that featured 15 majors
artists, among them Matt Connors, Ceal Flower, Josephine Mecksepper, Pae
White, and Adi Sibony.
Pollock's widow, the
artist Lee Krasner,
recalled that he stared at the long
white canvas on which he was going to paint Mural for weeks, paralysed with anxiety, before suddenly painting the whole thing in a single night.
Each of the geometric signs is a mirror surrounded by ceramic
white light bulbs that
recall Hollywood - style vanity mirrors, and also artworks from the 1960's and 70's by various Conceptual
artists.
As the
artist recalls in her autobiography, Infinity Net, «Deep in the mountains of Nagano, working with letter - size sheets of
white paper, I had found my own unique method of expression: ink paintings featuring accumulations of tiny dots and pen drawings of endless and unbroken chains of graded cellular forms or peculiar structures that resembled magnified sections of plant stalks.»