White painting

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

Latex paint, canvas.

Initially, the “White Pictures” by Robert Rauschenberg was perceived by many as outright mockery. The absence of a trace of any intervention by the artist on an almost pure white surface puzzles the viewer and suggests that this may be some kind of rally. In fact, the artist managed to express a lot with the help of his white canvases. They, like supersensitive screens, reflect everything that happens around them: the shadows of people and objects, the weather outside the window and the lighting in the room. In addition to these almost invisible effects, covered with a uniform layer of paint using a roller, these works minimize the artist’s participation in the process, which means that they represent art in its pure form, without any extraneous influences.