ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「This painting is made entirely out of text. Artist #GlennLigon uses an oil stick to stencil each letter of a paragraph over and over to the point where it is entirely blacked out. The paragraph is taken from Richard Dyer’s essay “White,” a reflection on the difficulty of analyzing whiteness due to its operation as a social norm—things that seem normal are difficult to see, he argues. ... “I find this work so interesting on many levels: the artist’s technique of building up a rich, velvety surface over time that evolves into something almost sculptural; the text, obscured yet palpable, inviting the viewer to really look hard to decipher meaning; and its relation to other artists I admire in the collection, whose work also incorporates text, like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.” –Michael Duffy (@mcdnyc), Paintings Conservator … Explore our staff’s #MoMApicks of #MoMACollection works that use words to challenge artistic convention: mo.ma/picks (link in bio) ... [Credit: Glenn Ligon. “White #19” (detail) 1994. Oilstick, gesso, and acrylic on canvas mounted on wood, 7' x 60" (213.3 x 152.4 cm). Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds. © 2019 Glenn Ligon]」4月12日 6時15分