Sort of underway by then He was sort of underway by then...he had this whole ritual for showing the work to people – you had to sit in a chair that was positioned what he felt was exactly the right distance from the painting. There was a certain mystique about it that worked for him. Craig Kauffman, Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art ritualmystery
Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971 A Research Paper by Robert Irwin, James Turrell & Ed Wortz archive.org You leave with the artThe object of art
You leave with the art If we define art as part of the realm of experience, we can assume that after a viewer looks at a piece, they "leave" with the art, because the "art" has been experienced. We are dealing with the limits of an experience—not, for instance, with the limits of painting. experience