Trevor is widely recognised for his formally structured,
minimalist approach to painting that is informed by his sustained engagement with a limited range of colours and an admiration for the commonplace.
Callum Innes and Perry Roberts are both recognised for their essential, apparently
minimalist approach to painting.
Trevor is widely recognised for his formally structured,
minimalist approach to painting that is informed by his sustained engagement with a limited range of colours and an admiration for the -LSB-...]
Although it is no longer considered avant - garde,
this minimalist approach to painting can still be admired for its concept and beauty.
Not exact matches
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.
What unites the nine artists, however, is a precise vision: from the
minimalist pre-Instagram-grid grids of Agnes Martin,
to the sharp imposition of Tara Donovan's bluffs, these women all exhibit an alternative
approach to painting, sculpture, and the art world at large.
Shields was actively engaged with architecture, theater and dance, and while he consistently used the word «
painting» in interviews
to describe his
approach, his art clearly takes on not only expanded
painting practice, but also the conceptual and
minimalist objects of the New York scene of the 60s and 70s in which Shields was immersed.
The 1969 Alvin Loving:
Paintings was immensely successful; critics like Dore Ashton placed Loving's work directly in the context of modernist art in a transitional moment from abstract expressionism
to op art and other
minimalist approaches.
This reductive
approach to painting aligned him with the beginnings of the
minimalist movement.
Realized during Mosset's Parisian days — where in the second half of the sixties with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni, Mosset founded the
minimalist collective BMPT — these
paintings are part of a series of circa 200 identical canvases that Mosset produced between 1966 and 1974 and epitomize his radical
approach to art making.
«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «
painting had moved further away from the confines of the
Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction
to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways
to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there emerged a move against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began
to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»
Though his early work allied him with the emerging
minimalist approach, Stella's style has evolved
to become more complex and dynamic over the years as he has continued his investigation into the nature of abstract
painting.