MINIMALISMBy Emily Hanson and Lexi Sterlini

“If Minimalism is not usually associated with diversity; it is often because people look for diversity only in familiar places.”

CHARACTERISTICS AND QUALITIESSimpleGeometric“Bare Bones”

Composition

Fundamental

OrderlyPurityTruth

CARL ANDRE-Phillips Academy-mainly focused on

sculptures-wanted to make

sculptures that “you could be in the same room with but ignore if you want to”

-linear-gridlike-style doesn’t

change much over the years

'I find that the more I feel that I'm capable of doing the things I want to do, the narrower my scope is. I feel far more concentrated. I'm definitely a hedgehog, as in the metaphor of Archilochus, the way someone like Robert Morris is definitely a fox. The fox knows many things and the hedgehog knows one thing very well. This is not a value distinction at all. Rather, it's a difference in temperament between different kinds of people.'

Carl Andre, interview with Patricia Norvell, 1969

“ONTOLOGISCHE PLASTIK”

Dusseldorf, Germany

ROBERT MORRIS-Hunters

College-wrote essays

on Minimalism-had many

solo exhibits

SIR ANTHONY CARO

-Very influential in sculpture

-Did lots of teaching

-Won a TON of awards and memberships

-Born in England!!

DONALD JUDD“Untitled” Used: plywood,

metals, concrete, color-impregnated Plexiglass

DAN FLAVINKnown For: Fun Facts:Used lots of light-

mostly brightly coloured fluorescent

“Icons”-made mostly of light bulbs and boxes

Fluorescent bulbs- “image objects”“Picture as an object”Didn’t consider his light sculptures as sculptures

SOL LEWITTKNOWN FOR: ARTWORK

3D worksWall drawings-parallel lines, reinforcing flatness

India ink/color ink washes

“Wall Structures”

“Table With Grid and Cubes”

FUN FACTS

~Artists hated the term “Minimalism”

~Point of Minimalism?~Materials used