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“Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.”
Jasper Johns at Pearl Street studio in 1955. Photograph by Robert Rauschenberg
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by Natee Utarit
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“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.”
Sleeping Muse by Constantin Brancusi
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“The only thing I feel like I know is that I want to make things. Other
than that, I feel like I don’t know. So the problem is in trying to make
something without knowing what I want. […] I think it’s all to do
with wanting to communicate. I mean, I think I want to make
things because I want to communicate with people, because I want to be
loved, because I want to express myself.”
Martin Creed – Members Artist 2015-2017
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Conceptual Art
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Rothko’s Room – The Life and Work of an American Artist
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“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no
collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all
had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the
same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which
condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to
discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life
are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root
and grow. We must all hope we find them.”
Untitled (1963) by Mark Rothko
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“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”
Date Issued: 1980-09-12 Homage to the Square: Glow postage stamp by Josef Albers.
This stamp commemorated American education and the early establishment of the U.S. Department of Education. The design of this stamp is taken from a painting by Josef Albers, a German -born artist who contributed much to modern art through his investigation of color and light perception. Albers came to the United States in 1933 to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He later taught at Yale. The culmination of Albers’ artistic development is seen in his famous Homage to the Square series, on which he worked from 1949 until his death in 1976.
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by John Baldessari
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Robert Motherwell and the New York School
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“The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else
can one do if one needs to express one’s feeling precisely?”
by Robert Motherwell
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Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962
Ad Reinhardt’s work became increasingly reductive and symmetrical in the
1950’s and from 1955 until his death he worked almost exclusively in
near-black. In fact the blue-black surface of ‘Abstract Painting
No. 5’ has an underlying grid of different coloured squares divided by a
green central horizontal band. Seen from top left, the squares are:
red, blue, red, red, blue, red. Each of these colours was mixed with
black oil paint to give a matt surface quality.
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“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could
be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to
the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine
some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these
images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the
most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies:
that is what people used to believe.”
by Hiroshi Sugimoto