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Minimalism. Serial Forms and Repetition. MoMA Minimalism Theme. Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962. MoMA Minimalism Theme. Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III . 1968. MoMA Minimalism Theme. Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III . 1968. MoMA Minimalism Theme.
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Serial Forms and Repetition MoMA Minimalism Theme
Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen, Second of 3 versions. 1967. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen. 1967. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen I. 1967-68. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Let’s compare these two versions of Repetition Nineteen Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen I. 1967. • 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 III. 1968. MoMA Minimalism Theme
“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. Serial Project, I (ABCD). 1966. MoMA Minimalism Theme
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 MoMA Minimalism Theme
The Materials of Minimalism MoMA Minimalism Theme
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. Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack). 1967. MoMA Minimalism Theme
What are the similarities and differences between Judd and Kusama? Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962. Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack). 1967. MoMA Minimalism Theme
“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 Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Let’s compare these two artworks. Vladimir Tatlin and Nikolai Punin. Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. 1920. Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Let’s compare Judd and Flavin. Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack). 1967. Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Frank Stella. The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II. 1959. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Constructing Space MoMA Minimalism Theme
“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. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969 (refabricated 1986). MoMA Minimalism Theme
Richard Serra. Equal (Corner Prop Piece). 1969-70. MoMA Minimalism Theme
“Felt has anatomical associations…it relates to the body—it's skinlike.” – Robert Morris Robert Morris. Untitled. 1969. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Let’s compare Serra’s One Ton Prop (House of Cards) with Morris’s Untitled Richard Serra. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969 (refabricated 1986). Richard Serra. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969 (refabricated 1986). MoMA Minimalism Theme
Dan Flavin. pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns).1963. MoMA Minimalism Theme
This work is dedicated to Jasper Johns, whose painting Flag also blurred the boundaries between real objects and their representation. Dan Flavin. pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns).1963. Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954–55 (dated on reverse 1954). MoMA Minimalism Theme
Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950-51. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Dan Flavin. pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns). 1963. Barnett Newman. Onement III. 1949. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Robert Smithson. Corner Mirror with Coral. 1969. MoMA Minimalism Theme
Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. 1970 MoMA Minimalism Theme