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The simple straight line is the best possible tool, the cleanest element

Over the next two years Irwin did nothing but paint the same painting over and over again.

Irwin continued this “phenomenological reduction”, successively bringing into question all the usual requirements for the art act— image, line, frame, focus, signature, permanence, eventually even objecthood.