October 2009
Beginner
376 pages
14h 37m
English
THE OBJECT IS THE ART
Do simple paintings and sculptures of cubes and pyramids transport you to another realm and inspire fantastic ideas? Probably not, and for Minimalists, they’re not supposed to. The sparse, geometric forms of the Minimalist movement are intentionally impersonal and meant only to be judged as objects at face value. Frank Stella once said of his paintings, “What you see is what you see.”
WHEN & WHERE
c. 1960–1975USA
Often viewed as a reaction to the pretensions of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Minimalism attempted to reduce art to its literal and fundamental elements, ...
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