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Article: Andreas Schon at Jay Gorney. (New York, New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Andreas Schon paints abstract paintings that look like messy watercolors, realistic aerial landscapes and close-ups of windows with venetian blinds. The connection between these disparate works is obviously not to be found in their ostensible subject matter. For Schon, a former student and studio assistant of Gerhard Richter, the paint itself and the act of painting are the real content of his work.
The most abstract of Schon's works were the two large venetian-blind paintings, each titled Blind. The 8-foot-square paintings showed no details of window frames or moldings, only the horizontal parallel lines of the shades opened slightly at one point as if someone ...