Robert Ryman. Le regard en acte. Archéologie as well as a testimony

as well as a testimony from Valéry's grandchildren

in everyday or ritual objects from other cultures or even valuable pieces from distant countries

pathos or societal disorder

superstitieux

and reads like a sensitive invitation to another intimacy of the world

Robert Ryman. Le regard en acte. Archéologie as well as a testimonyCatalogue of the Orangerie Museum exhibition. The question is never: what to paint, but only: how to paint. Robert Ryman (1930 2019), an American painter active in New York from the 1950s, initially intended to pursue a career as a musician. To earn a living, he worked as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art, where his interest in painting grew through contact with modern European masters (Monet, Czanne, Matisse) and new American references (Rothko,