<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span>a room by </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shelton, Mindel & Associates</span><br />vs.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Ryman's </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">paradoxically “realist” paintings</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6792995911_507ea0e826_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6792995911_507ea0e826_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 552px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6793005091_79e5f7f1f9_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6793005091_79e5f7f1f9_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 561px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >White actually means taking away, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">eliminating</span></span>. It’s not the case of painting white paintings. It’s a question of using white pigment. Of course, I use it differently today because the issues have continued to develop. I never thought that there should be a lot of things in a painting that don’t necessarily belong there. After all I didn’t simply make a decoration or paint an accumulation of things in order to see what works well.<br /><br />My main concern was<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to develop the structure</span></span> of the paintings so that it contains the essentials and everything superfluous is eliminated…the composition extends to the wall and becomes a part of the wall… when you take my paintings off the wall, they don’t exist anymore.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The painting needs a wall in order to exist.</span></span> Otherwise it makes no sense."<br /><br />- <a href="http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/september-october-2004/an-interview-with-robert-ryman-by-peter-blum"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Robert Ryman</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/september-october-2004/an-interview-with-robert-ryman-by-peter-blum">taken from here.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">Interior space by</span> <a href="http://www.sheltonmindel.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Shelton, Mindel, and Associates</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span><br /><a href="http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/september-october-2004/an-interview-with-robert-ryman-by-peter-blum"></a>

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