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“I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.”

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Robert Barry is an American artist known for his contributions to conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. His work often involves exploring the boundaries between art and everyday life. more

“After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.”

Kind Tree Equal Roots Drawing Branches Short Time Trunks Combining

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“The big thing is I try not to repeat.”

Trying Bigs Repeats Big Things

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“I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Words You Say

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“I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual things. You draw them. They are designed. They are colored. They have a certain size. I put them in a certain place. So they are objects that have to be - artistic decisions have to be made in terms of the color and the size and the line and whatever.”

Thinking Mind May Made Certain Speak Term Lines Decision Written Objects Color Wall Draws Size Artistic Visuals

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“A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Kind Art Ideas Different Used Taken Objects Contemporary Another World Contemporary Art Of Context Surrealist Different Meanings

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“And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.”

Way Art Important Style Like You Important Things Presenting Signatures Handwriting Presenting Yourself

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