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Minimalism

Jennifer Bartley

“Minimal Art’s objectively describable structures and proportions, it’s elemental forms and serial accumulations, it’s industrial materials and production forms argue consistently against abstract art’s subjective painting gestures of the 1950’s”.

(Wiehager, 2006)

Jackson Pollock - Number 1 (Lavender Mist) (1950)

“Five artists’ names were at the centre of attention – Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris.”

(Wiehager, 2006)

• Carl Andre – 1965
• Dan Flavin – 1963
• Donald Judd – 1963
• Sol LeWitt – 1960
• Robert Morris - 1963

Carl Andre

Equivalent VIII 1966

Carl Andre – Tate Shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLgwSgWpkpk

Dan Flavin

Untitled (to the citizens of the republic of france on the 200th anniversary of their revolution) 3.

Donald Judd

Stacks 1978

Sol LeWitt

Variations of incomplete open cubes 1974

Robert Morris

Untitled 1965

“Certainly, there are a good many skeletal white structures by Sol LeWitt. And Robert Morris was suspicious of colour, so he painted his early work grey, not white. Dan Flavin used tubes of white light – but his work was more often than not made in pools of intermingling coloured light: red blue green yellow orange, and white. Carl Andre: intrinsic colours, sometimes applied, sometimes both together, sometimes shiny, sometimes transparent, sometimes polished, sometimes matt. … In truth, the colours of Minimal art were often far closer to that of its exact contemporary, pop art, than anything else. … To mistake the colourful for the colourless or white is nothing new.”

(David Batchelor, 2000)

Gerhard Richter Mona Hatoum David Batchelor

Gerhard Richter

Grey 1974

Mona Hatoum

Light sentence 1992

Mona Hatoum – Tate shots

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kofcm9teUmo

Hot spot 2009

David Batchelor

Green pimp 2006

My own work in practice.