Robert Barry
Robert Barry
Robert Barryis an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."...
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth9 March 1936
art style important
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.
art thinking color
People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she has done and kind of go with it. There are always - either there's too much color or not enough color, either it's not conceptual enough or it's too conceptual. In other words, most criticism isn't what the viewer expected that it would do based on what they think you have done and that's good as far as I'm concerned.
space darkness important
The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
mistake perfect nothing-is-perfect
I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.
masters relation
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
museums trying firsts
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
art school thinking
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
art space guy
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
dream thinking projects
I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
mean done worst
I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
challenges surprise finished
I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
kind language realms
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
thinking interesting trying
I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
sleep night house
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.