Secret Painting
Secret Painting, is a series of contemporary art works by Mel Ramsden (member of the british conceptual artists' collective Art & Language) created between 1967 and 1968. These contemporary art works all consist of a monochrome painting associated with a text panel. The Secret Painting Series. This series of monochrome paintings is distinguished from the monochrome paintings usually produced in the field of visual arts by the accompanying block of text. This text mentions: It is at the same time, a reference to the history of monochrome painting and Malevich's Black Square (1915), and an answer given by  Mel Ramsden to the paintings of Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967), an American painter and theoretician, a precursor of conceptual and minimal art. Critical Analyses. These paintings raise the question of the status of the art object and the play that is established between the artist and the visitor in the possible revelation of a content. To his great amusement, during the exhibition "1969: The Black Box of Conceptual Art" Ann Stephen (PhD and Chief Curator of the University of Sydney Art Museum) said: