On Kawara was an artist in the 1960's that created documents and considered them art. Many works consisted of dates such as the Today Series. There are now over 2,000 works in this series. One particular piece of work I'm going to focus on out of the Today Series is the artwork titled Today Series: 1966.
This work of art was just one of many in On Kawara's Today Series. Each of the Date Paintings is inscribed with the date of the day on which the individual painting was created. If he does not complete the painting by midnight he destroys it. Some days he makes more than one but not too often does that happen.
Some guidelines are made for the paintings in this series of artwork done by On Kawara. All of the artwork is done horizontally, ranging from eight by ten inches to sixty-one by eighty-nine inches. For every painting, he mixes the colors he uses that day to create uniqueness in each painting. Four or five coats of acrylic are evenly applied to the surface of the canvas, on the sides as well as the frontal plane, and each layer is sanded down before the next is added, creating a dense matte surface. These works of art are usually 3-dimensional and consists of letters, numbers, and punctuation created in the center of the piece. ("Dia Art Foundation - Exhibition Main : On Kawara." Dia Art Foundation - Dia. Web. 23 Nov. 2009..)
This work of art was just one of many in On Kawara's Today Series. Each of the Date Paintings is inscribed with the date of the day on which the individual painting was created. If he does not complete the painting by midnight he destroys it. Some days he makes more than one but not too often does that happen.
Some guidelines are made for the paintings in this series of artwork done by On Kawara. All of the artwork is done horizontally, ranging from eight by ten inches to sixty-one by eighty-nine inches. For every painting, he mixes the colors he uses that day to create uniqueness in each painting. Four or five coats of acrylic are evenly applied to the surface of the canvas, on the sides as well as the frontal plane, and each layer is sanded down before the next is added, creating a dense matte surface. These works of art are usually 3-dimensional and consists of letters, numbers, and punctuation created in the center of the piece. ("Dia Art Foundation - Exhibition Main : On Kawara." Dia Art Foundation - Dia. Web. 23 Nov. 2009.
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