#function of painting

Robert Ryman A Major Survey at DIA: CHELSEA

‘1957-1964, the years Mr. Ryman was settling into his signature style.’  Settling into one style of signing.

‘These “copycat” artists have been popping up all over the place in high—and low—end galleries, in America and abroad. It’s ironic since one of the major tenets of Modernist art, as practiced by the cannonical artists now being copied, was originality. In fact, the quest for originality has maintained its value in Contemporary art, despite the widespread acceptance of appropriation, first popularized by artists like Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine in the 1980s. But to be clear, these new imitative paintings don’t use appropriation.’