Robert Ryman
By the time Ryman began working, artists such as Newman and Rothko had already reduced painting to its essences - Wikipedia
"kept trying to make it more basic, more simple. I didn't want anything in the paintings that didn't need to be there." Interview with Bruce Kurtz, in "Documenta 5: A Critical Preview," Arts Magazine 46, no. 8 (Summer 1972): 42.
Most paintings work all the way to the edges of their surface, however to Ryman, the surface is part of the work
Talks about his painting not being limited. No certain narrative.
No story to tell or political project. Nothing to stop him from experimenting and going forward with what he can do with painting.
Found this piece in a warehouse in a box saying 'test not an artwork'. Painting he had started in 1963 but never gone any further. Finished it in 2010.
First piece he ever sold, when his work wasn't famous. Owner agreed to give it back to him, he names it after her, Gertrude Miller.
He talks in a very chatty, laid-back style. Easy to understand and follow.
Never talks about paintings in a way of meaning or subject, but their formal qualities.Talks about the colours and the texture and the way he painted the piece and the stories behind each.
Book - not what to paint but how to paint
Book 2:
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