43. The Luminous room is for slow digestion. It's also not for everyone. But linger awhile and the "white" paintings reveal colors and textures that stray from the normal bland vanilla you think of when you think of white. I enjoyed most the Ryman for its wacky materials and violet aura and the Marioni which was positively green for all its intent to be white. These works all play with the ambient light in the gallery and the Beckers have no track lights illuminating the space. As the natural daylights shifts, so do the artworks. There's something about the show that reminds me of catching fireflies. The white paintings are like those fireflies, their changing luminosity a fascination.
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46. Brice Marden , Grove IV, 1976. Oil and wax on canvas, two panels, 72 x 108 inches overall.
50. Charles Ray, Ink Box , 1986, steel, ink, automobile paint, 36 x 36 x 36 inches
51. 2001: A Space Odyssey ; 1968 "It's time to abandon the conventional view of the movie as an extension of the three-act play. Too many people over thirty are still word-oriented rather than picture-oriented," - Kubrick, 1969
60. JASPER JOHNS, Flag, 1954–1955, dated on reverse 1954. Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, 3’ 6 1/4” x 5’ 5/8”.
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63. JOHNS, Jasper Target with Plaster Casts 1955 Encaustic and collage on canvas with objects 129.5 x 111.8 cm (51 x 44 in) Compositions already decided when using motifs like flags and targets
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69. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, Canyon, 1959. Oil, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed paper, printed reproductions, photograph, wood, paint tube, and mirror on canvas, with oil on bald eagle, string, and pillow, 6’ 9 3/4” x 5’ 10” x 2’.
72. Collection , 1954 Combine painting: oil, paper, fabric, newspaper, printed reproductions, wood, metal, and mirror on three canvas panels; 80 x 96 x 3 1/2 in.
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74. RAUSCHENBERG, Robert Tracer 1963 Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas 84 x 60 in. (213.4 x 152.4 cm) Rubens:Venus at the mirror
84. The Violin, 1976. Oil and magna on canvas 54 x 80 inches; 137.2 x 203.2 cm
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86. Mark Sink, Andy Warhol If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
87. “ The way that Andy Warhol attempted to make commercial art that was taken seriously as fine art, is the way I want to make pop music, pop art performance and pop fashion that’s taken seriously as high fashion and highbrow.” - Lady Gaga
88. Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp). 1921. Photograph by Man Ray. Self-Portrait (in Drag), 1981. Polaroid print, 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches; Image: 3 11/16 x 2 7/8 inches.
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90. ANDY WARHOL, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962. Oil on canvas, 6’ 10 1/2” x 4’ 9”. “ What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. “
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92. Andy Warhol, Lavender Disaster , 1963, Acrylic and Silkscreen ink on canvas, 106x81”
93. Andy Warhol, "Green Car Crash (Green Car Burning 1)" 1963, synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen
112. JACKSON POLLOCK, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950. Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas, 7’ 3” x 9’ 10”.
113. Gerhard Richter, Funeral (Beerdigung) 1988, Oil on Canvas 200cm x 300 cm. This painting depicts Andreas Baader's funeral at Stuttgart cemetery in 1977.
114. Richard Hamilton Swingeing London 67 (f) 1968-9 Acrylic, Collage and aluminium on canvas
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Notas del editor
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1964 1925-- Silkscreen resembling a collage Falling astronaut, falling paint; fall of Adam and Eve in right lower corner Kennedy in Christ like position