![]() However, since postminimalism includes such a diverse and disparate group of artists, it is impossible to enumerate all the continuities and similarities between them. Postminimalist artworks are usually everyday objects, use simple materials, and sometimes take on a "pure", formalist aesthetic. Postminimalism is more an artistic tendency than a particular movement. In visual art, postminimalist art uses minimalism either as an aesthetic or conceptual reference point. In music, postminimalism refers to music following minimal music. The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts, but can refer to any field using minimalism as a critical reference point. Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism. Read and take notes on Pop art and Minimalism, completing the two note-taking summaries from the above instructions.Untitled (Tantric Figure), 1960 - James Lee Byars.Also, explain how it relates to the viewer in a unique and/or different ways.įor class next week – summary of the 1 required thing to do: Explain in your own words how this style relates to or reacts against Abstract Expressionism in both formal characteristics and in subject matter. ![]() In each, include an overview of the type of visual characteristics and subject matter in this style. Write two separate short summaries or bullet points about Pop art and about Minimalism. Read essay about Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc – a large public sculpture – LINK: Īnd, about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the national mall in Washington DC as a public monument – LINK: Read and watch any videos in menu on far left of your choice. Read essay about Minimalism on – LINK:Īnd, click on ‘Minimalism Artworks in Focus’ inside blue text box and read about the first five artworks through Donald Judd’s Untitled.Īnd, read Minimalism essay on Khan Academy: LINK: ![]() Read essay: Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych – LINK: Video: Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe – LINK: Video: Why is this art? Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans – LINK: ![]() Then, on menu on far left, watch two videos and read one essay about the three artworks by Andy Warhol in the vertical menu after this introduction. Read introductory essay about Pop art on – LINK: What follows these two styles in the 1970s is called Post-Modern because it comes after modernism and uses the visual languages of modernism as seen in the various art styles we have studied but in different ways or for different reasons. With Minimalism, we see the final explorations of the possibilities of strict geometric and non-representational abstraction that here harnesses the space beyond the gallery’s wall or sculptural pedestal to re-define the boundaries of art beyond the two and three-dimensional. With Pop art, we see the merging of the realms of art and popular culture, art and technology, and art and commercialism that began with the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and that continued to define modern art in different ways over the 20 th Century. Minimalism responds by focusing on the formal aspects of the artwork, rejecting the idea of the individual gesture of the artist and the subjective expressionistic focus of Abstract Expressionism in favor of establishing a different relationship between art, its viewer and the space both occupy.īoth styles push the language of modernism to its conclusion meaning that with them, the language of modern art has now been completely and successfully explored. Pop art responds by celebrating recognizable subject matter drawn from the everyday, the commercial, and the commonplace and rejecting the emphasis on abstraction. Both styles develop as a reaction against the subjective intensity and physical aspects associated with Abstract Expressionism. Pop art and Minimalism follow Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and ‘60s. James Rosenquist, House of Fire, 1981, oil on canvas, 78 inches x 17 feet, 6 inches.
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