b'Ron Martin: Titanium White #6 Ron Martins ten documented Titanium White paintings are the most radical of his one-colour paintings made between 1971 and 1973. Spanning the spectrum and Bocour colour chart, he also made groups within the one-colours including the celebrated Bright Red paintings (May-September 1972) and the more rare Titanium White paintings (February-June 1973), such as Titanium White #6.The one-colour paintings were executed using a defined amount of paint and medium applied to a gessoed, unstretched, canvas tacked to a wall with the dimensions of the final paintings consistent and predetermined. The one-colour paintings and the related all-black paintings of 1973/4-1981 are essential to the history of Canadian post-war art. Widely exhibited and discussed at the time and acquired by numerous and notable public and private collections, their achievement remains to be properly addressed in a broader context. Springing from his self-generated limits, Martin takes us to the roots of when a painting becomes a painting.More than any others in the corpus, the Titanium White paintings remain radical a half-century after their making because of their austerity and subtlety. Like the earlier all-white paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Piero Manzoni, and the contemporary paintings by Robert Ryman that pursue different aims, Martins white paintings demand much from their viewers and also return much more. Gregory Humeniuk Toronto March 2023 Gregory Humeniuk is the author of Ron Martin: The Material and the Conceptual (2004), Ron Martin: Conclusions and Transfers / Conclusions and Transportations (2018), and is preparing a monograph on the artist.'