Minimalism. Serial Forms and Repetition MoMA Minimalism Theme

Minimalism

Serial Forms and Repetition

MoMA Minimalism Theme


Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962.


Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968.



Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen, Second of 3 versions. 1967.



Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen. 1967.


Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen I. 1967-68.

Let’s compare these two versions of Repetition Nineteen


• The earlier version is made with paper maché, aluminum screen and paint. The latter version is made with fiberglass.

• How do the materials change the piece?

Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen I. 1967.



Sol LeWitt. Serial Project, I (ABCD). 1966.

“The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloging the results of his premise.”

– Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt. (332) From all Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes. 1967-69.


“The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloging the results of his premise.”

– Sol LeWitt

The Materials of Minimalism



Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack). 1967.

• What are characteristics that Untitled (Stack) shares with painting.

• What characteristics does it share with sculpture?

• Consider formal traits such as line, shape, color, materials and dimensionality.



Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962.

What are the similarities and differences between Judd and Kusama?

Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964.


“One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is…as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.”

– Dan Flavin


Vladimir Tatlin and Nikolai Punin. Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. 1920.


Let’s compare these two artworks.




Let’s compare Judd and Flavin.


Frank Stella. The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II. 1959.

Constructing Space



Richard Serra. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969 (refabricated 1986).

“Even though it seemed it might collapse, it was in fact freestanding. You could see through it, look into in, walk around it, and I thought, ‘There’s no getting around it. This is sculpture.’”

– Richard Serra


Richard Serra. Equal (Corner Prop Piece). 1969-70.


Robert Morris. Untitled. 1969.

“Felt has anatomical associations…it relates to the body—it's skinlike.”

– Robert Morris




Let’s compare Serra’s One Ton Prop (House of Cards) with Morris’s Untitled


Dan Flavin. pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns). 1963.



Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954–55 (dated on reverse 1954).

This work is dedicated to Jasper Johns, whose painting Flag also blurred the boundaries between real objects and their representation.


Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950-51.



Barnett Newman. Onement III. 1949.


Robert Smithson. Corner Mirror with Coral. 1969.


Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. 1970

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Minimalism. Serial Forms and Repetition MoMA Minimalism Theme