Robert Ryman review – more than simply pale and interesting

Dia Art Foundation, New York
Working almost entirely with the colour white, for six decades the artist has made remarkably warm paintings in which the immaterial is made manifestWhite, Wassily Kandinsky thought, had had a bad run in painting before him. The impressionists’ snow effects were usually rendered in light blue and mauve, while Vincent van Gogh, in an 1888 letter to his fellow painter Émile Bernard, wrote that he felt unjustified in painting with white – too far from