Minimalism Serial Forms and Repetition Mo MA

Minimalism

Serial Forms and Repetition Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen, Second of 3 versions. 1967. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen. 1967. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen I. 1967 -68. Mo. MA 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? Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968.

“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 Le. Witt. Serial Project, I (ABCD). 1966. Mo. MA 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 Le. Witt. (332) From all Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes. 1967 -69. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

The Materials of Minimalism Mo. MA 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. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

What are the similarities and differences between Judd and Kusama? Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack). 1967. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation of Stamps, 63. 1962.

“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. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Let’s compare these two artworks. Vladimir Tatlin and Nikolai Punin. Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. 1920. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964.

Let’s compare Judd and Flavin. Donald Judd. Untitled (Stack). 1967. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Dan Flavin. Monument 1 for V. Tatlin. 1964.

Frank Stella. The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II. 1959. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Constructing Space Mo. MA 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. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969 (refabricated 1986). Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Richard Serra. Equal (Corner Prop Piece). 1969 -70. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

“Felt has anatomical associations…it relates to the body—it's skinlike. ” – Robert Morris. Untitled. 1969. Mo. MA 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). Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Richard Serra. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969 (refabricated 1986).

Dan Flavin. pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns). 1963. Mo. MA 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. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954– 55 (dated on reverse 1954).

Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950 -51. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Dan Flavin. pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns). 1963. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme Barnett Newman. Onement III. 1949.

Robert Smithson. Corner Mirror with Coral. 1969. Mo. MA Minimalism Theme

Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. 1970 Mo. MA Minimalism Theme