MINIMALISM

Minimalism

An artistic movement in painting and sculpture where any sense of the artist’s role in the work is kept to an apparent minimum, to give it “a completely literal presence”

Minimalism

to give it “a completely literal presence”

Minimalism

an extremely simple and pure form, reducing the art to a state intrinsic to its medium with a deliberate lack of expressive content.

Minimalism

the point is to emphasize that it is not the artist’s expression, but the medium and materials of the work are its reality.

Minimalism

a work of art should not refer to anything other than itself.

Frank Stella a minimalist painter

Who stated “ all i want anyone to get out of my paintings is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion. What you see is way you see.”

1960s

Minimalism emerged as an art movement in the

Minimalism

a reaction to abstract expressionism which minimalist find to be too personal, pretentious and insubstantial.

Minimalist

advanced the principle of eliminating all sense of the artist’s role in the work, leaving only the medium for viewers to contemplate in its absence of narrative and content beyond the medium itself.

Primary Structured held at the Jewish Museum

a historic moment for constructivist was

Donald Judd
Carl Andre
Dan Flavin
Sol Lewitt
Robert Morris
Tony Smith

Minimalist artist who put minimal art on the map

Dan Flavin

Untitled

Tony Smith

Free Ride (1962)

Ellsworth Kelly

Red Green Blue (1964)