Equally significant, if smaller in scale, is Mies» daring design of furniture, pieces that exhibit an unerring sense of proportion, as well
as minimalist forms and exquisitely refined details.
Not exact matches
To see whether a single reason really can
form a good basis for making decision, Goldstein, working with Max Planck researchers Jean Czerlinski and Laura Martignon compared
Minimalist and Take The Best with two conventional analytical tools that use all available information — multiple regression and a simplified regression known
as Dawes's rule.
Coppola isn't a
minimalist, exactly, but
as in «Lost in Translation» and «Somewhere,» she demonstrates an economy of
form and plot that tends to get mistaken for insubstantiality.
As well as the neat, simple design forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the minimalist ambience of the cabin, each made up of simple linear shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter»
As well
as the neat, simple design forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the minimalist ambience of the cabin, each made up of simple linear shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter»
as the neat, simple design
forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the
minimalist ambience of the cabin, each made up of simple linear shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter».
Based on pure geometric
form, buildings in the International style have been both praised
as minimalist monuments to American culture and corporate success by some, and criticized
as sterile glass boxes by others.
There are a lot of problems inherent to Dragon Quarter's
minimalist approach to narrative, but let's cut to most important one, the one that brings the game's credibility most deeply into question: the whole idea of the «Dragon
Form As Built In Cheat Code» itself ends up being the first in a long list of ideas that end up reinforcing meritocracy.
The game's
minimalist approach to story works for it,
as any
form of complex plot would be unnecessary and stifling to the game's simple and wacky premise.
It is usually three - dimensional, taking the
form of sculpture or installation, though there are a number of
minimalist painters
as well such
as Agnes Martin and Frank Stella
It could mean leaders of the
Minimalist era, such
as Richard Serra, grappling with human
form.
In a second room, two other figures composed of metal blocks pursue the robotic or prosthetic metaphor more obviously,
as well
as following more literally the
Minimalist prescription of modular
form.
In each of these open steel - mesh containers, she would weave rubber tubes through the grid, creating a
minimalist form that looked
as if it were growing hair or coming alive.
Repetition of
form, particularly within a
minimalist aesthetic, is particularly prevalent in her work and can be observed just
as keenly elsewhere.
Central to the exhibition are found images that «serve
as bedrock for Pendleton's artistic practice and connect his
form of abstraction with the history of the America Civil Rights Movement, the pre-war Avant - Garde, La Nouvelle Vague in film, and
Minimalist and Conceptualist art practices of the 1960s.»
Although her work tends to favor biological
forms rather than a rectilinear grid system, Donovan's use of singular materials and adherence to rule - based systems has aligned her with the legacies of
Minimalist artists such
as Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse.
The monochromatic lines and
forms that run through these works share the
minimalist impulses of painters such
as Sol Lewitt and Agnes Martin.
The artist's clean
Minimalist practice is a
form of truth to material, or at least truth to the fragility, physics, and potential danger of material
as a signifier of the finite nature of the human
form.
Simultaneously, West Coast artists such
as Larry Bell, John McCracken, Joe Goode and John McLaughlin, were
forming their own response to these issues and developing a
Minimalist aesthetic and set of principals that transcended the formal aspects of the movement and relied on a more spiritual and ethereal practice.
Her
forms reference narratives of midcentury Modernists — Anthony Caro, David Smith, Tony Smith —
as well
as 1960s and 1970s
Minimalists — Donald Judd and John Chamberlain — with a decidedly contemporary perspective.
John McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art,
as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of
Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color,
form, and finish.
Later in her career, she established herself
as a painter of
minimalist landscapes immersed in vibrant colors and modest geometric
forms.
Composed of grids, lines, and geometric shapes, the structures
form a volumetric drawing within the space of the gallery, referencing cheap commercial constructions
as well
as the serial patterning of paintings and sculptures made by
Minimalist artists such
as Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin.
Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist, considered
as a pioneer of a
form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action, creating sculptures that eschew
minimalist reserve in favor of bold colors, sensual lines, and lyrical references to the human body.
Traditionally, On Kawara's work has been designated «conceptual,» yet the deliberately simplistic
form and style (or «grammar») of works, such
as his Date Paintings, is markedly
minimalist.
Artists featured in the panel all create work that shows the influence of the
minimalist movement — which has been described
as offering «a highly purified
form of beauty» — even if on a subconscious level.
Though not
as well - known
as figures such
as Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, or Dan Flavin, Ryman is nonetheless one of the pioneers of
Minimalist painting, whose works attempt to empty the painting of content — and color — in order to focus almost entirely on
form and process, an idiom in which he has continued to work for some sixty years, long past the demise of Minimalism
as a cutting - edge movement.
By framing the
minimalist object
as «hollow» Fried implies the existence of some essential vessel or
form, however compromised.
Like the efforts of other
Minimalists, including Dan Flavin, Frank Stella, Carl Andre and Robert Morris, his simple, factory - made
forms were seen
as «radically depersonalized» (in the words of one critic, Hilton Kramer), devoid of emotion and signaling a dead end for art.
Liberman, not wanting to limit himself to any one
form of expression, worked to produce radically
minimalist paintings and sculpture in order to illuminate his beliefs about celestial motion, the movement of the eye,
as well
as human sexuality.
«Through an economy of means that yields variation within repetition, Webber's
minimalist forms reveal the infinite possibilities of the photogram
as both medium and process.
John McCracken (1934 — 2011) occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art,
as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of
Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color,
form and finish.
Constructed
as a shiny black barrier whose modular nature fractures, the
form embodies Violette's deep interest in wedding a
minimalist inheritance with the aura of staged tragedy - a melding of formalism with an iconography of cruelty, violence and death.
Hesse, possessed of material ingenuity and an apparent naughty streak, took that ethos and pushed its outer limits, making works from latex, rubber, fibreglass and wire mesh, coagulating her materials not into pure
form,
as the
Minimalists intended, but suggestively sensual abstract shapes.
Huge in scale,
Minimalist in
form, and shown both indoors and out, Harlan's art has often been referred to
as Duchampian in its reliance upon readymade components, its deceptive simplicity, and it spatial humor.
As a result, many new types and
forms of sculpture were pioneered by American artists, including monumental stonework (Mount Rushmore), Kinetic art (mobiles), assemblage,
minimalist structures, photorealist statues, pop sculptures, environmental earthworks, and multi-media sculpture.
The serial structure of the breast - like
forms in «Ishtar» also alludes directly to the systemic character of
minimalist contemporary sculpture, which Hess successfully appropriated and personalized in works such
as this.
Wonderfully complex and totally superfluous structurally, it gives a sense of how he sorted out the
forms of his sculpture
as he worked rather than planning a sculpture out ahead,
as did many of his
Minimalist peers, then having it fabricated.
Its blocky
form echoes the frequent use of cubes and rectangular beams by
minimalists such
as Carl Andre and Tony Smith.
As Violette considers the historical site, he appropriates exhausted
Minimalist forms and reactivates their meaning to create a theatrical practice within this new context.
DERAILER DERAILER consists of a series of duplicated
forms, focusing on «object
as witness» and
minimalist architecture, brought to life through performative elements.
In Face Powder (1991), she achieves a parody of
Minimalist icons by casting face powder in a circular
form reminiscent of breasts,
as well
as architectural moldings.
The artists represented in the exhibition, with their very distinct approaches, recast
Minimalist forms and strategies — repetition, the grid, geometry — in such unorthodox materials
as cosmetics and velvet.
Its block - like
form referenced the grid structures famously associated with
minimalist artists such
as Donald Judd and Carl Andre; but into an artistic vocabulary associated with permanence and industrial precision, Gallaccio introduced evanescence and the idea of cycles of transformation.
The solo show features Michele Dragonetti's Boat Hull series, in which photographs of boats taken on the East End and
as far
as Barcelona take on
minimalist, abstract
forms.
The exhibition, organized by Dia curator Yasmil Raymond and former Dia director (now MOCA director) Philippe Vergne, is an occasion to consider the entire sweep of Andre's oeuvre, which, together with Donald Judd and Richard Serra's work,
formed the hieratic core of the
Minimalist movement — with Andre's key contribution being his breaking of the fourth wall,
as it were, by encouraging viewers to interact with his famous floor - tile sculptures by walking on them.
In a beautifully installed exhibition at Marc Strauss, Jones's
minimalist shaped paintings challenge classic distinctions between art
as object or surface through a meticulous condensation of material, color and
form.
Like Burr's past work, which gave priority to
Minimalist forms, characters, and discourses, the five new interrelated installations presented at SculptureCenter focus on moments in American art history - in this case, those involving the stateside reception of European modernism
as filtered through figures like «Chick» Austin, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum from 1927 to 1944, and members of the New York School, particularly Frank O'Hara, whose poem «Addict - Love» provides the exhibition title.
Creed is often described
as a
Minimalist and in its purest
form, Work No. 204: Half the air in a given space consists of a room filled with balloons fulfills this description.
While his monochromatic paintings have been characterized
as minimalist, upon close inspection their dynamic surface qualities convey a tactile complexity combining both organic and geometric
forms.
Fried's main objection to Morris's style of
minimalist sculpture,
as outlined in his celebrated 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood», is that it denies the value of composition and
form, and instead exalts the significance of the viewer, thus transforming the sculpture from a work of art into a spectacle.
Whether executed
as simple strings of lightbulbs or glimmering floor sculptures, his
forms echo the practice of
Minimalist sculpture imbued with an underlying current of poetic intimacy and political content.