Gull white flat interior latex (Magicolor No. 3011-11) on studio white seamless paper
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In his Yellow Movie series, Conrad—an experimental filmmaker and composer and a key figure of New York's downtown scene in the 1960s and 1970s—directly references cinema, without using film or a projector. He applied house paint to large, irregular sheets of paper, anticipating the slow yellowing of the paint over the years, a protracted process he saw as a film of extended duration. “The Yellow Movies were a solution to the problem of how to produce films that could run for a lifetime,” he said.
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