"Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up, taken apart.... You can just keep on pushing it, like this infinite machine...."
"Untitled" (1962)
"Untitled," 1962
Oil on linen, 63 x 63 inches. Photo by: Gordon Riley Christmas
Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York
Oil on linen, 63 x 63 inches. Photo by: Gordon Riley Christmas
Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York
"Bebop is swing- a more advanced development of swing. It’s like Bach. You have a chord structure and you can develop that in many ways. You can play written compositions and improvise off of those. So you learn your instrument and then you play within a structure. It seemed logical to begin painting that way. I wasn’t interested in painting a narrative or telling a story with a painting. Right from the beginning, I felt that I could do that if I wanted to but that it wouldn’t be of much interest to me."
- Robert Ryman
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