minimalism

Park Seo-Bo’s Ecriture – Everything you need to know

Paintings / 8 minutes of reading

Park Seo-bo is a Korean painter and part of the first generation of contemporary artists in South Korea. Park has been prolific in his career and considered by many as the godfather of Dansaekhwa, Korean minimalism, that began in the mid-1970s in South Korea. He is perhaps best known for his series, Ecriture. The artist …

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Sculptor Tony Smith & his 7 best works

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

Tony Smith was quite the phenomenon back in his day. He was often referred to as the Renaissance man who dabbled in a variety of mediums. Smith successfully included architecture, sculptures, and taking part in art critique. Although he succeeded in almost everything, he is best remembered for his steel sculptures, which he liked to …

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Why did Eva Hesse create her Repetition Nineteen III?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

It’s possible to create a piece of remarkable art from just about anything. If you doubt that, then you have probably not encountered Repetition Nineteen III by Eva Hesse. In it, Hesse brings 19 translucent forms to life. Each bucket-like form is roughly 20 inches in height. If you ever wanted to see a perfect …

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Why did Ai Weiwei create this giant tea cube?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei has never held back in terms of the amount of experimentation he’s willing to involve in his art. He has attracted much attention in China and the rest of the world for being a controversial artist. His work A Ton of Tea (2007) is easy to understand, as the name suggests, without losing …

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These are Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Structured art is appreciated for the tangible experience it provides – the Torqued Ellipses has a different feel in the interior and another in the exterior. The experience of walking around the Torqued Ellipse is quite awakening. The steel surface of the structure is covered in a layer of rust and it is not by …

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Artist Richard Long’s groundbreaking A line made by walking

Environmental Art, Other / 4 minutes of reading

The photograph reveals a straight line receding towards tall bushes and trees. It is a straight line of trampled grass that appears in a field. Below the image, the writing says A Line Made By Walking and England 1967. The whole artwork is a documentation of Richard Long’s land artwork. It documents his work: The …

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Dansaekhwa: Korean monochrome painting: Everything you need to know

Paintings, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

Dansaekhwa is an art movement born in South Korea in the 1970s. The pioneers of Dansaekhwa are born between 1913 and 1936 and avoided any reference to Western realism in their works, creating primarily monochrome and minimalist paintings. The artists also attempted to break away from the heritage of Japanese imperialism and Western abstraction. Dansaekhwa …

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Jaehyo Lee (이재효) & his massive organic sculptures – Our top 10

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Jaehyo Lee (b. 1965, Hapchen, South Korea) graduated in 1992 with a BFA from the Hong-Ik University in Seoul. Combining distinct traces of Land Art, Arte Povera and Minimalism Lee´s works cast a questioning eye over the roots of form, its function and its role within the natural world. Lee´s works willfully play with the …

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Sol LeWitt – Five decades of his famous sculptures

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Sol LeWitt is an iconic artist who is regarded as a founder of both minimal and conceptual art. He believed that the figures that the mind can think of are possible to make and construct. To start his structural design making and abstract design actualization, he used the square as a reference figure where all …

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What made Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc sculpture so controversial?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Embed from Getty Images Richard Serra is a leading sculptor who is known for creating minimalist artwork. While he began his career after studying fine arts at Yale University, he created the sculpture Tilted Arc in 1981 in New York after celebrating his fortieth birthday. By this time, he was already highly recognized. This is …

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Why are Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings so influential?

Mural, Paintings / 4 minutes of reading

Over the course of his prolific and influential career, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) produced approximately 1,350 wall drawings, comprising approximately 3,500 installations at more than 1,200 venues. Early in his career, Sol LeWitt began to have others help execute his wall drawings. Wall Drawing 16 was first drawn by a draftsman, which helped LeWitt realize his …

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