Final Project - Visual Analysis

The influence for my post-modern project was the life and works of Robert Ryman. Ryman is an American modernist, who works solely with square pieces, monochromatism, and paint. I chose to take influence from Ryman's monochromatism and the square structural composition of his pieces. For my piece, I chose to make one large square out of nine smaller squares. Ryman incorporated texture through brush stroke, I chose to create texture using other materials. Ryman drew his major influence from his work as a security guard at the MoMA, so I chose to draw my influence from materials in my apartment.


The focal point of the piece is the middle square of the piece. The piece can be considered more of sculpture than a painting due to the use of other multiple mediums.The piece is balanced due to the use of mirrored texture on the shapes of the squares.There are implied lines from the shadows in the more three-dimensional pieces. The movement of the piece is rectilinear and is implied based on the movement of the texture on each individual piece. I chose to steer away from other connotations, denotations, and ideological meanings when creating my piece because Ryman revered himself as an anti-critic.