‘Robert Ryman review—this is how you make sense of a “difficult” artist’ by Laura Freeman
2026
‘Antrios’ is the name of the painter of the white painting with fine white diagonal lines at the centre of Yasmina Reza’s play Art. He doesn’t exist but he’s a cipher for any number of painters who did white squares and made you pay for it: Kazimir Malevich, Agnes Martin, Lucio Fontana and the biggest, squarest of them all, Robert Ryman.
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