One of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd's oeuvre has come to define what has been referred to
as Minimalist art — a label the artist strongly objected to.
The work of Donald Judd (1928 - 1994), one of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, has come to define what has been referred to
as Minimalist art — a label to which the artist strongly objected on the grounds of its generality.
His oeuvre has come to define what is widely referred to
as Minimalist art.
The work of Donald Judd (1928 — 1994), one of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, has come to define what has been referred to
as minimalist art — a label to which the artist strongly objected on the grounds of its generality.
While Mangold's work is viewed
as minimalist art, he has said that he doesn't identify completely with the term, stating that it creates an idea of being overly simple.
About the exhibition: As two of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd's practices have come to define what has been referred to
as Minimalist art.
Although her work has been described
as Minimalist art, her inventive use of new materials (rubber, latex, fiberglass, string), together with her sexually suggestive shapes, lent her work an emotional power that eluded other top contemporary artists, such as Donald Judd (1928 - 94), Robert Morris (b. 1931) and Richard Serra (b. 1939), and led to her being labelled a «post-minimalist».
HdM's early works were reductivist pieces of modernity that registered on the same level
as the minimalist art of Donald Judd.
His oeuvre has come to define what has been referred to
as Minimalist art — a label the artist strongly objected to.
Not exact matches
We might adore the ornate styles of the
art deco era, but the latest designs coming off the catwalk prove that the fashion world is just
as enamored with sleek,
minimalist designs.
The Assassin will mark Hou's first endeavor into the martial
arts genre,
as his career up until this point has been largely been composed of contemplative
minimalist dramas.
The film, which is touring in a new digital restoration for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of European
art cinema, a
minimalist manifesto, and the easiest entry point into the challenging anti-Masterpiece Theatre of Straub and Huillet, a husband - wife duo who co-directed more than 30 films (all of which can be loosely categorized
as «adaptations») before Huillet's death in 2006.
The Beniferri metro station and Palau de Congressos tram stop are just five minutes» walk, bringing guests quickly and easily to the city centre and attractions such
as the City of
Arts and Sciences, the cathedral and L'Oceanografic aquarium.The luminous guest rooms are equipped with large, floor - to - ceiling windows and modern
minimalist décor.
There is a very
minimalist design that is apparent from the very beginning due to the simple
art style, but begins to show more signs
as there is no HUD and no instructions provided on how to play the game.
Some highlights include Tacoma, a surreal sci - fi exploration game from the makers of Gone Home,
as well
as Ashen, an open - world adventure game with a
minimalist - yet - brutal
art style.
Semblance pops with gorgeous
minimalist art style, atmospheric sound design and an engaging storyline to organically unravel
as you explore its world.
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 A
art as were manifest, say, in the Russian avant - garde, American color field painting or Minimal
ArtArt.
Minimalism or
minimalist art can be seen
as extending the abstract idea that
art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing.
Minimalist artists rejected the notion of the artwork
as a unique creation reflecting the personal expression of a gifted individual, seeing this
as a distraction from the
art object itself.
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.
Testimonies from artists such
as Minimalist Carl Andre and Conceptualists Vito Acconci and Lawrence Weiner along with filmed footage of the New York
art scene help to capture the zeitgeist, one very different from that of today's
art world.
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.
Instead of asking viewers to reconsider furniture, electrical wiring, or the floor (
as the East Coasters did), this branch of
Minimalist sculptors examined the way that
art could change a viewer's understanding of illumination and darkness, both natural and synthetic.
Celant continued to champion Arte Povera,
as well
as minimalist performance and conceptual
art.
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.»
In 1959, when Flavin was shortly employed
as a guard and elevator operator at the Museum of Modern
Art, he met fellow
Minimalists Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman.
Smoke looks forward to
Minimalists such
as Carl Andre, Ronald Bladen, Jene Highstein, or Dan Flavin, but it stays public
art in the old - fashioned way.
Marfa, largely through the renowned Chinati Foundation, is identified
as a centre for
minimalist and land
art.
By 1970 Pop
Art was dead, and Lichtenstein spent a decade painting images that were intentionally
minimalist, such
as mirrors and sunsets.
If spare,
minimalist aesthetics echoed the language of corporate lobby design, Stella's late work — once described by Dee Wedemeyer in the New York Times
as the real estate developer's choice — seems to echo the bright, frivolous
art that hangs on sterile lobby walls.
Krauss, who had been writing for such respected publications
as Artforum since 1966 (only four years after graduating from Wellesley and three years before she received her Harvard degree), found herself increasingly interested in the work of
Minimalists like Richard Serra and Donald Judd — artists Greenberg dismissed
as not adhering to the strictures he laid out for Modern
art.
Characterised by a
minimalist, monochromatic aesthetic and a reverence for the transformative power of light, Mack described the movement
as «the adventure of seeking out and discovering the still - white spaces on the map of
art.»
Neo-Dadaists like John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns rallied for idea - based
art, and in 1967 Minimalist Sol LeWitt published what many regard as a Conceptualist manifesto, «Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,» in which he claimed, «It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.&raq
art, and in 1967
Minimalist Sol LeWitt published what many regard
as a Conceptualist manifesto, «Paragraphs on Conceptual
Art,» in which he claimed, «It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.&raq
Art,» in which he claimed, «It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.»
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.
Johns» striking use of popular iconography, «things the mind already knows,»
as he put it (flags, numbers, maps), made the familiar unfamiliar — and made a colossal impact in the
art world, becoming a touchstone for Pop,
minimalist and conceptual
art.
A pristine cast - iron building, with sunny rooms that accommodate beautifully installed
Minimalist art and Judd - designed furniture, it stands
as a shiny, bright masculine yang.
East Coast
Minimalists such
as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd, primarily structured their practice around a vigorous dedication to formal, spatial and authorial problems in
art.
His work has also featured articles from Playboy magazine and explorations of the way we build our understanding of the present through reconstruction of the past via subjects
as varied
as the Loch Ness monster, the location of a Samuel Beckett play, or the history of
Minimalist art.
Along with such artists
as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, Flavin became one of the progenitors of
minimalist art.
The intentionally inexpressive geometries of
Minimalist works of
art may at first appear
as meaningless arrangements of colored squares, rectangles, and lines devoid of content — essentially an
art of nothing.
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.
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.
And one has every right to be wary of rediscoveries in this
art market, even one
as remarkable
as that of another in the
Minimalist tradition, Susana Solano.
They shared a dissatisfaction with the political and social status quo,
as well
as with the constraints of the then - dominant
minimalist and Pop
art styles.
In the mid 1960s,
as curator at the Jewish Museum, he organized the first museum survey of
minimalist art, Primary Structures.
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.
By the mid-1960s, Sandback was taking an active part in the exchange of ideas between
minimalists such
as Robert Morris and Donald Judd, artists with whom he studied sculpture at Yale University School of
Art and Architecture.
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 scre
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 scre
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.