Robert Barry quotes

I try to deal with things that maybe other people haven't thought about, emptiness, making a painting that isn't a painting. For years people have been concerned with what goes on inside the frame. Well maybe there is something going on outside the frame that could be considered an artistic idea. (Robert Barry)
My idea of painting was that those yellow squares, being put on the wall as delineating a virtual square or rectangle, were involving the wall itself within the piece and, in this sense, compared to what is usually a work of art, a painting, this piece was somehow reversing the usual terms of the esthetic proposition. Usually, you see the painting and you ignore the wall. Here you had the wall coming through the painting - and the painting itself, the painted pieces, become a standpoint to make the wall appear. View quote
Robert Barry
Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world. View quote
Robert Barry

Robert Barry

Occupation: American Artist
Born: March 9, 1936
Quotes count: 3
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