Frank Stella’s work not only is welcomed by Minimalist Carl Andre but also praised by Michael Fried for its inherent property of the boundaries of the canvas (Mehring 97). It was a lively debate in the art world when not only young artists are endeavoring to break from the old tradition but also their ideas having contention over modernism, art, and sculptures. However, the Minimalism Movement didn’t happen overnight. These paths lead only to painting (Dorothy C. His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. Symbols are counters passed among people. He is interested in the necessities of painting. There is nothing else in his painting.įrank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. Frank Stella has found it necessary to paint stripes. His close friend, Carl Andre, also a famous minimalist wrote the preface on Stella’s request:Īrt excludes the unnecessary. 1) featured in the 1959 exhibition, “Sixteen Americans” in MOMA is known as the first signal of minimal art for disregarding expressions and reacting against the rhetoric of subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism (“Frank Stella Black Series I”). Frank Stella’s artwork preface page in the catalogue for The Museum of Modern Art’s 1959 exhibition, “Sixteen Americans”įrank Stella’s black stripe paintings (see fig. Abstract expressionism is imbued with expressions and traces of handcrafting of the artist, while Minimal art is reducing all the expressions and intentionally making the art object look like machine-made.įig. Meanwhile Minimalist considers his conception of modernism casting an authoritative restraint on art, and thus disavowing the paintings’ esteemed status in the art world, reducing visual presentations into extreme, and blurring the boundary between paintings and sculptures. He considers the great modern art on the progressive evolution towards flatness since the time of Manet (Arnason and Mansfield 510). In 1961, Clement Greenberg published Art and Culture, championing Abstract Expressionists, and praising optical quality even for sculptors. Opposite Ideas in Dialogues Abstract Expressionism & Minimalismīehind Minimal art, its meaning system is a direct descendent from and also the denial of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing genre in the 1950s, famous for artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooming. This essay will address lists of opposite ideas and supportive ideas relevant to the Minimalism movement and analyze the current digital interface for Minimal artist, Donald Judd. Minimalism movements started in the 1960s and faded in the mid-1970s. Famous minimalist artists include Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Mathias Goeritz, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Frank Stella. Minimal art was also called “ABC Art”, “Literalist Art”, and “Cool Art”, but the labels were always rejected by the minimalist artists. The curators of Minimal art exhibitions often hear criticism saying it is not art and have to go to length explaining its meaning. Minimal art is not one of those artworks that you can understand instantly. MoMA managed to accomplish a very interpretive exhibition on the artist, Donald Judd, and his artworks but lacks the substantial dialogues between Judd and his Minimalist artist fellows. This essay goes through the relevant concepts that are important for interpreting Minimalism movements and conduct a case study on MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art)’s 2020 online exhibition “Judd” to discuss its potential and challenges towards a more conceptual understanding of Minimalism and possibility of interfacing a larger network of the genre. Minimalism movement is an art movement prevailing in the 1960s-70s and Minimalist art is experiential and pays much attention to space, colors, and materials, some characteristics hard to interface in a digital interface. However, as some art concepts are simply not suited for the transformation, we have to not generalize one model for presentation and interface. In the age of digitalization, cultural institutions have thought of ways to integrate the museum functions into a flat-screen.
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