Donald JuddJune 3, 1928-February 12, 1994

Judd helped find the minimalist movement. Primarly used box shaped structures thought his career. He felt art went beyond the artist feelings.

He began his career in the early 60’s and later went on to criticism art of the time and he went on to create art the he felt was disconnected the artist personal views and the art should be just appreciated for what it is.

In his later years leading up to his death he created many pieces that were large structures made of copper and brass with smooth features.

Judd helped revolutionize modern sculpting by bring in basic shapes, space and simple colors into focus.

Dan Flavin

April 1, 1933 - November 29, 1996

At the start of his career he showed early interest in fluorescent lights and other light fixtures

First major piece was icon V (Coran's Broadway Flesh), 1962. A brown boc with lights along the sides.

“The radiant tube and the shadow cast by its supporting pan seemed ironic enough to hold alone. There was literally no need to compose this system definitively; it seemed to sustain itself directly, dynamically, dramatically in my workroom wall—a buoyant and insistent gaseous image which, through brilliance, somewhat betrayed its physical presence into approximate invisibility.”

To Flavin the object and light created form the tubes were able to stand alone as art and preceded to make more work involving tubes and how the light effects the empty space around them.

Criticism

To many folks minimalism isn’t very well reserved. It is sometime labeled as lazy, lifeless or just plain dull.

But the goal of minimalist artist isn’t to be flashy over expressive. Minimalism is meant to be looked at for simple what it is. Not what the artist could have been thinking when they made it. It’s meant to push was art can be defined as.