Articles of striped and monochrome clothing hung in a circle behind her recall such divergent forms
as minimalist painting and punk.
They appear in one painting as a stack of books, in another as a piece of fabric, and in a third
as a Minimalist painting hanging on the wall.
In 1966, the Panzas began to concentrate their attention on Minimalist figures in American art, purchasing works from American sculptors like Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, and Carl Andre, as well
as Minimalist paintings by Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman, before moving onto Post-Minimalist works by the sculptor Richard Serra.
Not exact matches
Until now, these works have been either neglected or treated
as a prelude to the proto -
minimalist black
paintings that Stella began at the end of the year.
Younger than this generation, all of whom were born in the early 1930s, and were undoubtedly affected by the horrors of World War II, Farrell shares something with the reductive impulses that are central to
Minimalist artists such
as Robert Ryman, Brice Marden and, to a lesser degree the Radical
Painting of Marcia Hafif.
In his
paintings he reflected abstract -
minimalist trends in 20th century art
as were manifest, say, in the Russian avant - garde, American color field
painting or Minimal Art.
My primary focus
as of late has been on textured impasto
paintings and contemporary landscape
paintings such
as: tree
paintings, modern
minimalist art, nightscape
paintings, contemporary landscape
paintings, storm
paintings, modern abstract art, impressionist art and mid century modern art.
Frank Stella started his career in the late 1950s
as a maker of taut,
Minimalist stripe
paintings, works...
Using light
as a conceptual manifestation of the physicality of
paint itself, works such
as Three Fluorescent Tubes (fluorescent lights, 1963) and Alternate Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (for Don Judd)(daylight fluorescent lights, 1964) are particularly important for their connection to Russian Constructivism, a movement that influenced the
Minimalists by its favoring of integrated production and industrial materials over the conventional approaches of traditional sculptural impulses.
Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and
minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such
as the civil rights movement.
Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous
paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity
as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.
Aside from Arcangel's acute portrayal of contemporary American identity
as the sum total of its readily available, mass market hyper - branded goods, his agglomerative sculptures also refer back to specific moments in recent art history, such
as the
Minimalist «planks» of John McCracken, the consumer good presentations of Cady Noland or Haim Steinbach and, most specifically, to the striped,
painted poles of André Cadere.
Thus when the viewer sees the red date and signature of one of Mr. Kim's recent
paintings the first association may be with the chop signature of a traditional Korean ink drawing, but it may just
as easily be considered
as a formal addition to the
painting much in the way that Robert Ryman has continued in his work of 1996 to incorporate the date into his own seemingly
minimalist, abstract
paintings.
While its iterated cuts conjure a dynamism that has an undeniable debt to Italian Futurist
painting, the elongated, serial composition and slick objecthood of Concetto spaziale, Attese can also be seen in relation to such
Minimalist formats
as the boxes and «stacks» created by Donald Judd, whose groundbreaking text «Specific Objects» had been published in 1965.
Irregular - shaped
minimalist paintings like Papillion (2009), vibrantly colored, stained, birch woodwork from the «Doorways Series,» merged his sophisticated craftsmanship
as a furniture maker and architecture student with inventive contemporary
painting techniques.
From those microcosms, which originated in her studio space, themes of breakdown, contamination and corruption emerge
as well, resulting in a range of abstract and
minimalist compositions across plywood and acrylic
paint skins.
It will include works from Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, the playful
minimalist who created the notorious room with lights going on and off, Andrea McLean whose dense surfaces teeming with birds, beasts, flowers and trees, double up
as a delicately detailed diary of her experiences, Neil Jeffries's wall - based sculpture, David Batchelor's jewel bright
minimalist painting.
But,
as a painter, Adams is equally interested in intense observational
painting — of, for example, the best of the Dutch flower painters —
as she is in the
Minimalists.
By 1970 Pop Art was dead, and Lichtenstein spent a decade
painting images that were intentionally
minimalist, such
as mirrors and sunsets.
Although often connected to
minimalist sculptors such
as Donald Judd, who also made simple
painted wooden objects at roughly the same time, Anne Truitt had little in common with the anti-aesthetic and anti-compositional stance of that loosely defined movement.
Art historical precedents including Robert Rauschenberg's monochrome White
Paintings from 1951 and Robert Ryman's
Minimalist experiments with white
paint beginning in the 1960s, provide interesting counterpoints to understanding the range and function of white
as a painterly medium.
While
Minimalist artists such
as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Dan Flavin were gaining ground with their work in New York, McCracken was experimenting in Los Angeles with a medium somewhere between sculpture and
painting, in a parallel fashion.
There are various mixed - media objects, such
as a found African sculpture made of wood covered in nails and orange
paint; tarp
paintings that nod to Abstract Expressionism and
Minimalist abstrac - tion; and a Renaissance - style mirror draped in army green cloth.
Her use of commercial slatwall panels
as an artistic medium for both Crow and Corvette (2011), the latter installed among three works in the «Collective Conversations» gallery, is a departure from traditional materials of
painting and sculpture, but a clear reference to
Minimalist and Modernist aesthetics.
For the 2017 edition, ADAA members will present a wide range of solo exhibitions highlighting artists from around the world, including presentations that offer new insights on established and influential artists, such
as Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis, whose
paintings will be presented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery; leading
Minimalist Josef Albers, whose
paintings and drawings on paper will be presented by David Zwirner; and Post-Impressionist Édouard Vuillard, whose
paintings and works on paper will be presented by Jill Newhouse Gallery.
His switch from
painting to sculpture was coincident with a growing interest in architecture and in industrial processes and materials, such
as galvanized steel, concrete, plywood and aluminum, which he used to create large, hollow,
Minimalist sculptures.This decisive development is documented here for the first time, from the early work of the 1950s up to 1968, the point at which Judd's artistic vocabulary reached its complete formation.
As a proto -
Minimalist, with early white
paintings or plainer black
paintings hung on black walls in the 1970s, he can seem fussy, too.
Following his Sky and Torn Sky / Cloud series from the early 1970s, Goode turned towards what can be seen
as an existential inquiry into
Minimalist painting, color, and the reification of the
painting as an object.
In one small gallery, Patrick Berran very capably meets the demand for
Minimalist paintings made by largely hands - off methods — in his case, layers of photocopy transfers dominated by a pattern that reads
as leopard skin or moisture condensation, depending on its size.
Trees, flowers, clay, fruit, ice, sugar, and chocolate have all appeared
as regular protagonists in her work, including a carpet of 10,000 flowers left to wilt on a museum floor; a room whose walls the artist
painted in chocolate and then invited viewers to lick its sweet but precarious surfaces; and a thirty - two - ton
minimalist grid of ice cubes melting in a nineteenth - century water pumping station in east London.
The works —
Minimalist paintings, collages, and prints — are the physical documentation of what is actually a social and performative art practice based on seminal texts such
as The Red Badge of Courage, On the Origin of Species, and Invisible Man.
Additionally, the Dwan bequest will include five
paintings by Yves Klein — the Gallery's first acquisition of works by Klein, a leading member of the nouveau réalistes —
as well
as paintings by Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin; and sculptures by such
minimalist artists
as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Fred Sandback.
In his richly hued,
minimalist works, Kim seeks to push the edges of what we understand
as abstract
painting by using the medium to develop an idea that typically gets worked out over the course of an ongoing series.
Painting - represented by Wheeler, Bell, Irwin and Mary Corse - plays a minor but irreplaceable role in «Phenomenal»
as a sort of mediator between the East and West Coast impulses that informed
minimalist sensibility across a generation at the turn of the»70s.
There is a still - prevalent trend in
painting to discuss abstract and
minimalist composition
as accomplished through a series of logical moves — the development of formulas and blueprints more associated with «design» than any kind of affective reaction.
Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making in the West, from commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's
minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in New York) to websites such
as Contemporary Art Daily that tend to privilege the flattened picture surfaces of post-
minimalist paintings, which look good filtered through the even light of a laptop screen.
Rather than acting
as a static façade, Lee Kit's
paintings operate against his formal training — another political gesture — by facilitating, or contributing to the illusion of his
minimalist assemblages.
The struggle to understand the
minimalist or abstract works in the past was replaced by the fetishism of the artistic process
as the only way of creating something truly original in our time like the first ever
painting done by applying
paint with fire extinguisher.
Levine also reinvents Man Ray's
painting La Fortune (1938), multiplying the central image and bringing it to life
as a three - dimensional installation whose synced repetition echoes that of
minimalist sculpture.
For the Blanton,
as for the art world at large, the death of this artist, who came to prominence during the late 1950s and»60s with his striking color field
paintings and
minimalist sculptures, was a great loss.
This stunning work on paper, executed in silverpoint, is reminiscent, to a degree, of the
paintings of
minimalist artists like Agnes Martin and Frank Stella, but its phenomenal radiating effect recalls nothing so much
as Jay DeFeo's The Rose.
Abstract, Color Field, and
Minimalist painter whose most famous pieces include Beginning (1958) and Bridge (1964), Kenneth Noland has been recognized
as one of the most important figures of post-abstract-expressionist
painting.
The Berlin - based artist Gregor Hildebrandt fashions
Minimalist paintings from anachronistic materials such
as cassettes and VHS tapes.
Work by Douglas Witmer February 25 — April 2, 2011
As a departure from his larger
minimalist paintings, Douglas Witmer has two series of intimate, seldom seen works.
An innovative colorist, Kenneth Noland began his career
as an Abstract Expressionist, became one of the first practitioners of Color Field
painting as part of the Washington Color School, and ultimately embraced a
Minimalist approach that comprised vivid color and simple geometric shapes.
Baconian Empericism originating in 16th Century Dutch Landscape
painting and finding its way into the grid of
minimalist painting is manifest
as a series of intersecting metal framings that hold the mirrors in place and distribute the urban scene along a flat grid.
After settling in New York, Kuwayama eschewed both traditional Japanese
painting and Abstract Expressionism, which dominated contemporary art, and instead, associated with
Minimalists such
as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd.
As an artist, Wardlaw has been active in and responsive to the major developments in
painting since the appearance of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s to the hard - edge, Color Field and
Minimalist painting of the»60s and»70s to the neo-representational art of the 21st century; today his art is intensely personal and highly expressive in a very exciting way.
(born 1934, Berkeley, California, USA) is characteristically
Minimalist in that his «objects» aren't adequately categorized
as «
painting» or «sculpture.»
Minimalist art in America came about
as a reaction to the romantic exuberance of Abstract Expressionist
painting.