Hofmann was friendly with both Greenberg and the Color Field painters as well
as the Minimalist painters and sculptors at Hunter, where he taught.
As minimalist painter Frank Stella once said: «What you see is what you see» (source).
They're not as idyllic
as some minimalist painters; they have a sober manner that has more to do with the world of appearances.
known mostly
as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.
Jeff Kellar known mostly
as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.
He was one of the best - known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of
as a minimalist painter.
Not exact matches
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
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.
The monochromatic lines and forms that run through these works share the
minimalist impulses of
painters such
as Sol Lewitt and Agnes Martin.
The lower horizontal band retains an emphasis on bands of color similar to abstract works by
painters such
as Morris Louis and a repetitive logic that foreshadows
minimalists such
as Donald Judd.
The pendulum has now swung away from the cool, abstract and geometric art of Noland's generation and the
Minimalist painters who followed them, and toward expressive figuration practiced by such artits
as Julian Schnabel (MATRIX 52), Francesco Clemente (MATRIX 46) and Georg Baselitz (MATRIX 70).
It consisted very largely of drawings from life by a selection of figurative
painters of that time and was explicitly intended to reassert the importance of a figurative and humanist art in the face of what Kitaj saw
as the increasing dominance of abstract,
minimalist and conceptual art.
While numerous
minimalist painters exist, among them Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold and Brice Marden, most of the key
Minimalists - Andre, Flavin, Judd, LeWitt and Morris - produced sculptures or,
as some put it, «specific objects» or «objects in a world of objects».
She emerged in New York in the 1960s
as one of the foremost
Minimalist painters.
Understood
as the representatives of the color - field sub-movement production, Washington
painters produced
minimalist works featuring stripes, thin bands of alternating colors, and geometric shapes.
At the Saatchi Gallery, spellbinding shows of American
minimalists and abstract
painters such
as Donald Judd and Brice Marden gave way to displays of more recent contemporary works by emerging artists.
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.
Later in her career, she established herself
as a
painter of
minimalist landscapes immersed in vibrant colors and modest geometric forms.
Not only does Peter Joseph not consider himself a
minimalist artist, he sites early Venetian and Florentine painting
as influences and subscribes to a methodology usually associated with that of Renaissance
painters.
A
painter, writer, curator and a pioneer of
Minimalist sculpture in Britain, the Pakistani - born artist began his professional life
as a civil engineer in Karachi.
As one of the most important painters of the 1960s, Rothko's influence can be seen in much of the work that was made subsequently, such as that of painters Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, and Jules Olitski; Minimalist sculptors Donald Judd and Dan Flavin; and even Light and Space artists James Turrell and Douglas Wheele
As one of the most important
painters of the 1960s, Rothko's influence can be seen in much of the work that was made subsequently, such
as that of painters Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, and Jules Olitski; Minimalist sculptors Donald Judd and Dan Flavin; and even Light and Space artists James Turrell and Douglas Wheele
as that of
painters Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, and Jules Olitski;
Minimalist sculptors Donald Judd and Dan Flavin; and even Light and Space artists James Turrell and Douglas Wheeler.
The Conceptual and
Minimalist art of the 1960s could be seen
as a reaction against
painters like Rothko and Pollock.
The very title of «Color Field,» she said, evokes the work of color field
painters like Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, while the canvases allude to monochromatic
minimalist paintings by artists such
as Agnes Martin and Anne Truitt.
Morrison served
as an assistant to famed
minimalist painter Agnes Martin and was significantly influenced by her in many ways, including his titles, such
as «Love Prayer» or «You're So Lovely,» which are distractingly sentimental verging on cloying.»
The 70 - year - old Chicago - based artist has been quietly crafting
Minimalist - influenced paintings since the early 1970s, with his signature variance of oil stick marks on wood or aluminum surfaces that share the spirit of other
painters from that era such
as Brice Marden and Robert Ryman.
Highlights include works by the iconic 19th - century
painter Childe Hassam, who popularized impressionism in the United States with his lush city scenes and natural landscapes; Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bold image of the modern woman
as a bather in the 1920s; and a recent
minimalist seascape by photographer Catherine Opie that reduces the ocean to subtle, ethereal layers of color in which the human figure is almost overwhelmed by natural environment.
Baltz's
minimalist and reduced image compositions explore the photographic style
as a process, and refer not only to the art of photographers like Lee Friedlander or Robert Frank but also to
painters and sculptors of his day such
as Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns or Sol LeWitt.
Agnes Martin was an American abstract
painter, and often considered
as a
minimalist, she saw herself
as an abstract expressionist.
Fried argued, however, that
as Stella developed, he was making it more and more plain that he was a painterly
painter, who believed in art, and that his works, with their increasing richness, were deliberate corrections of the
minimalist mistake.
Mr Kelly evaded critical attempts to classify him
as a Color Field, hard - edge, or
Minimalist painter, has redefined abstraction in art, establishing himself through his drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints
as one of the most important artists working today.
In addition to celebrating Smith's mature
Minimalist style — epitomized here by Cigarette, 1961, a fifteen - foot - tall polygonal arch — the exhibition explores his career
as an architect (he joined Frank Lloyd Wright's studio in 1938) and a
painter (colleagues Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Ad Reinhardt were also close friends).
At that time he was one of the hard core of
Minimalist artists that included the sculptors Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Robert Smithson
as well
as the
painters Jo Baer, Robert Ryman, and Robert Mangold.
«Thinking about her (
Minimalist painter Agnes Martin) has a soothing effect, like imagining myself reincarnated
as a smooth and shiny pebble, glinting in sunlight at the bottom of a cold, clear mountain stream.»
As the 1960s progressed, he added the
minimalist sculptors Donald Judd and Robert Morris, and
painters Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman and Richard Artschwager, among others.
Martin was a concise
painter who employed a decidedly limited vocabulary, but she rejected being labelled
as a
minimalist, whom she considered to be too cerebral in their objectives.