Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mel Ramsden

Learned a little about contemporary artist Mel Ramsden today in my art history class. I love his famous Secret Painting, shown below: 


It reads: "The content of this painting is invisible ; the character and dimension of the content are to be kept permanently secret, known only to the artist."
The painting that the text refers to is the black square to the left.

It is so humorous, which by now you've realized appeals to me very much. Ramsden has really nailed down his concept of displaying the relationship between art and language.  I'm really beginning to love the style known as conceptualism. It really makes me think. 

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