Presentation for Modern Literature and the Arts' lecture on Minimalism as a 20th Century Art movement. Spring 2013

1. Kristy
Valerie
Alex

6. Minimalism??
Donald
Judd, Untitles, 197

7. Characteristics
• “What you see is what you see.” –Frank Stella
• Literal
• Often geometric
• Repetition
• “Less is more”– a direct relationship with the viewer
• No expression or “artist’s touch”
• Not unique!

8. Materials
• Industrial
• Often assembled in factories
• Mostly sculptures
• Space
• Precision

10. Influences
Jackson Pollock, Autumn
Rhythm, 1950

11. Influences
Andy
Warhol, Cam
pbell’s
Soup, 1968

12. Influences
Marcel
Duchamp, Bicycle
Wheel, 1913

13. Kasimir Malevich
1913
“Black Square on
White Form”

16. Donald Judd
1928-1994

17. “A shape, a volume, a color, a
surface is something itself. It
shouldn’t be concealed as
part
of a fairly different whole.”
-Donald
Judd

18. Untitled
1965

19. Untitled
1962

20. Untitled
1963

21. Untitled
1966

22. Relief
1961

23. Frank Stella
1936-Present

24. “What you see
is what you see.”
-Frank
Stella

25. Black Paintings
1959

26. Kastura
1979

27. Cipango
1962

28. Protractor Series, Sabra II
1967

29. Irregular Polygons Series
“Ossippee”
1967

30. Dan Flavin
The Diagonal
of May
25, 1963

31. “Greens Crossing
Greens”

33. Sol LeWitt
49 three-part variations on three types of cubes
Wall Drawing 797
Scribbles

34. 49 three-part variations on
three types of cubes

35. Wall Drawing 797

37. Wall Drawings 790A and
790B: Irregular
Alternating Color Bands

38. Scribbles

41. Post-
Minimalism
Architecture
Furniture
Sculpture
Etc.

45. Steps, Rich
ard S.
Munoz-
Vidal, 2009

46. Reaction
Eve Hesse, Right After, 1969

47. Eve Hesse, Metronomic Irregularity
I, 1966

50. Tumbleweed
Minimal Housing