About Joseph Marioni

  • Biography

    Following is a review of an exhibition of painting by Joseph Marioni

    JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
    by Robert C. Morgan

    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | OCTOBER 22, 2011 - JANUARY 29, 2012
    "Liquid Light"

    In 1986, Joseph Marioni proposed the term "radical painting" to describe what he does. Radical painting is the root source that "exists as a concrete object in the real world [and] presents the least information and the most sensation of all painting." The sensation to which he refers is color; and through color, he aspires to give his viewers an "experience of some primordial essence."

    Marioni is clearly aware of the issues confronting the advancement of painting in the age of the Internet. For more than 40 years he h...

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