![]() Judd used the adjective “minimal” as early as 1960 in a review and later to describe Morris’s constructions. In the late 1920’s, John Graham Graham, John named a movement “minimalism” however, he used the term to designate the presence of a minimum of operating means. The term “minimalist art” cannot be credited to any particular individual. It came to symbolize the final stage of the linear progress and reduction associated with the avant-garde and was sometimes referred to as “the last of the modernist styles.” Minimalist art lay dormant through the 1970’s, rejected, by the end of that decade, as authoritarian modernism by younger artists. By 1968, however, much of this art had become mainstream. The originality of the show seemed to predict a future trend-minimalist art as a unique retrospective glance at the 1960’s. ![]() Forty-two British and American sculptors were represented. The most sensational New York exhibition of minimalist art was called “Primary Structures,” Primary Structures (exhibition) which consisted of sculpture of clean order and high finish, with referential connections to manufactured objects, organized by Kynaston McShine McShine, Kynaston at the Jewish Museum in 1966. The future of minimalism was decisively announced by the sculptor Donald Judd’s first solo exhibition of red wooden reliefs and floor structures at the Green Gallery in December. Smaller neo-Dada works were interspersed among huge gray plywood constructions. ![]() During the fall of 1963, the gallery was occupied by Morris’s two distinct types of art objects. The first minimalist exhibition to attract significant critical attention, however, was Morris’s show at the Green Gallery Green Gallery. Although minimalist art continued to be produced into the 1980’s, it flourished from 1963 to 1968.Īnne Truitt’s exhibition of sculpture in February of 1963 at André Emmerich’s Emmerich, André gallery is generally regarded as the first identifiably minimalist show. Minimalism (art) Painting Sculpture Minimalism Emphasizes Objects as Art (Feb., 1963-1968) Art, Minimalism Emphasizes Objects as (Feb., 1963-1968) Minimalism (art) Painting Sculpture North America Feb., 1963-1968: Minimalism Emphasizes Objects as Art United States Feb., 1963-1968: Minimalism Emphasizes Objects as Art Arts Feb., 1963-1968: Minimalism Emphasizes Objects as Art Stella, Frank Heizer, Michael Morris, Robert Truitt, Anne Judd, Donaldįrank Stella’s “Black Paintings,” which were shown as early as 1959 in the Museum of Modern Art’s Museum of Modern Art Museums Sixteen Americans Sixteen Americans (exhibition) exhibit, inaugurated the period, while Robert Morris’s process-oriented work and Michael Heizer’s earthworks of the late 1960’s signaled minimalism’s decline. Minimalism and pop art also shared a philosophical commitment to the abstract, material object. Although minimalism shared with pop art Pop art (“popular” art) anonymous design, deadpan flatness, and natural or industrial color and was even described as “Imageless Pop” in 1966, the minimalists avoided any form of comment, representation, or reference in their work. Historically a reaction to what young artists saw as the autobiographical gestures of abstract expressionism (a broad movement in art characterized by a lack of representation and by an emotional approach to concept and execution), minimalist art also encompassed the formal innovations of abstract expressionism, particularly as articulated by the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman. Its basic organizing principles include the right angle, the square, and the cube, rendered with a minimum of compositional manipulation. The term “minimalist art” describes abstract, geometric painting and sculpture executed in the United States during the 1960’s. Minimalist art focused on the direct visual perception of objects rather than on the symbolic interpretation of them.
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