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A painting on show in the 1960's Gallery of Tate Britain. The artist is Bernard Cohen and it is called In That Moment created in 1965. ‘In that Moment’ consists of a single line broken only by being crossed by itself. The line was first painted in oil paint by brush, then over-painted in egg-tempera applied in a concentrated spray: the whole was then sprayed with ‘Acryla’ matt varnish. The artist has stated that the subject-matter of this and related paintings is in part the actual process of executing the painting and of covering the picture area, in which the progress of the line gains a momentum of its own. Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1965–1966, London 1967.