Polymer paint on vinyl mounted on composite board
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Bruxelles
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
monochromatic
non-representational
repetition
painting polymer paint vinyl mounted composite board
Untitled, Bruxelles
support, each: 536 × 536 mm
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>Ryman is concerned with how a painting is created rather than what it represents. Always using white or off-white paint, he varies the type of support, brush and fixtures from work to work. Here, he applied white emulsion over black vinyl that he had adhered to the front of ten pieces of board. Pieces of tape were then pulled away from the surface of each at four points to reveal a small square of vinyl. This work was made for an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels in 1974, and is one of three multi-part works made at that time.</p>

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abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities geometric monochromatic non-representational repetition