It was the first American museum to present this style of art, and the exhibition received great critical acclaim for introducing a new visual lexicon to the Western art canon. Sculpture was an extremely important part of Minimalism and Minimalism art. Artists were interested in creating three-dimensional geometric forms in space using industrial materials such as fibreglass, plywood, plastic, sheet metal and aluminium.
Sculptures were placed on the floor as opposed to on a pedestal, and visitors were invited to examine the relationship between different parts of the artwork within a repetition of geometric bodies. The result was a flat, two-dimensional space that directly affected viewers, who got to experience art stripped down to its basic physical appearance and fundamental character. Both paintings contain either a single vertical or horizontal unpainted line at the centre of the canvas, offset against the other white and black lines that divide the canvas into perfectly equal sections.
With this highly regulated pattern, Stella attempted to force illusionistic space out of the painting. An important aspect of the Minimalism art tendency was the preoccupation with light installations. Artists started using fluorescent light tubes to sculpt space into colour zones.
The focus of the work was on the light itself, not on the forms of the light tubes. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, minimalist art was developing at a rapid pace in the s and s in the form of the Light and Space Movement. These stripes are in fact the raw canvas revealed between broad black stripes painted with few visible brushstrokes. The painting is an unframed, flat abstraction and would appear to be meaningless except for its title: Die Fahne Hoch!
Raise High the Flag! Stella has denied any political connection, and one could possibly see the title as a wave to Jasper Johns, whose American flag paintings of were met with praise by his critics, but also a general public bewilderment.
Stella challenged the traditional dichotomy between painting and sculpture that was championed by Clement Greenberg and other modernists, particularly those associated with Abstract Expressionism.
Scholars have read the title as an example of Minimalists' often-in-your-face aesthetics and their refusal to make works that are visually appealing, instead forcing the viewer to confront works on a physical level as a way of disputing the conventional relationship between the viewer and the work of art in which the viewer simply appreciates or admires the visual appeal of a work.
The artist's specifications for the sculpture were as follows: "a six-foot cube of quarter-inch hot-rolled steel with diagonal internal bracing.
Smith explained that a larger scale would have endowed Die with the stature of a "monument," while a smaller one would have reduced it to a mere "object. Like other examples of Minimalism, its unreadable surface and frank lack of visual appeal come across as almost hostile in its undermining of traditional understandings of art as something aesthetically or emotionally appealing, showing the artist's rejection of Abstraction Expressionism's hands-on approach to art making.
The sculpture's deceptively simple title invites multiple associations: it alludes to die casting, to one of a pair of dice, and, ultimately, to death. As Smith remarked, "Six feet has a suggestion of being cooked. Six foot box. Six foot under. Meaning becomes relative rather than absolute, something generated through the interplay of word and object. Weaving together strains of architecture, industrial manufacture, and the found object, Smith radically transformed the way sculpture could look, how it could be made, and, ultimately, how it could be understood.
Carl Andre's Lever was the most audacious entry at the Primary Structures exhibition that introduced the public to Minimalism. This row of firebricks aligned to project out from the wall and straight across the floor was likened by Andre to a fallen column.
Lever startled gallery visitors, interrupted their movement and, in its simplicity, was annoying. Made from easily available building materials "anyone could do it: where was the art? Such provocations became routine for Andre: "my ambition as an artist is to be the 'Turner of matter.
Art no longer was hung discreetly on the wall or placed on a pedestal in the corner as something to enjoy in a purely visual way. It now required a more complex and thoughtful interaction from the viewer. This piece is made of nontraditional materials that call to mind industrial or building materials that require no manipulation from the hand of the artist.
While the work is nonrepresentational, the title is suggestive of manual labor. Content compiled and written by Justin Wolf. Edited and published by The Art Story Contributors. The Art Story. Ways to support us. Minimalism Started: Early s.
It shouldn't be concealed as part of a fairly different whole. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct. It's on different levels.
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The artist discusses how materials are a natural part of his life, and looks back at when his work hit …. Main menu additional Become a Member Shop. Art Term Minimalism Minimalism is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle.
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