Lecture07 Post Gestural Abstraction & Minimalism

Lecture07 Post Gestural Abstraction & Minimalism
ARTH3120 Contemporary Art
Travis Lee Clark
Utah Valley University
This is a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." kinda lecture. So what happened to Modernist painting in the 60s and 70s after the revolution in Conceptual and Pop Art? Well, Modernism ran aground on the shores of Conceptual, Performance and Pop Art it had a long talk with itself about what kind of movement it wanted to be. It was down, but it wasn't out. In fact it "Moderned" HARDER. It moved away from the gestural and painterly styles of the Abstract Expressionists to a more hard edge style, a style that emphasized the object. TBH it was kinda heading this way ANYWAY, but this spurred on a whole new direction, and spawned Minimalism which brought it into the third dimension. More to point, by responding to Pop and Conceptul Art it too became MORE conceptual, spawning process art. Along the way our old friend Clement Greenburg got to save some face, and a critic of Warhol's Pop Art, Donald Judd, got to put his money where his mouth is.

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Hype is the diplomatic term to describe this sort of " art ". Friends who suffer from insomnia or could do with a good belly laugh, should have indeed be made aware of this !

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Thank you very much fo this lecture !! It helped me a lot for my research about minimalism !

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Haikus are Japanese poems that are meaningless and should be accepted for their beauty regardless from any meaning...moving away from the notion that beauty has to be linked to concepts and meanings...so beauty can be admired for what it is; a line, a colour, and any artistic abstraction, regardless of any meaning, objectivity or concept!

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Thank you SO MUCH for your inspiring lecture ! Looking forward to more video! From a MFA student in Taiwan.

[@elmerfudd7202]

I remember this Modern Art crap from the 60s. Its still crap. The copper flashing is typical dumb modern art. If you want to see unique items to "admire the object" just go to a junk yard. Infinitely more interesting. If you have the knowledge you can go to a junk yard and look at a engine block or any mechanical device and disect the engineering behind it. The thousands of design decisions required to arrive at the final device. The truth behind modern art is the Tax scam. A millionaire pays a artist to produce "crap" and buys these works for low prices. Within a few years the artist becomes slightly famous, because the art appreciates with the fame all the works the millionaire bought for pennies is worth millions. The millionaire then donates the art to a museum for Tax breaks hundreds of times greater than he paid for them. Thus saving the millionaire millions in taxes. Its a industry, creating BS jobs for people like Travis Clark. Jobs where a BS artist pretends art a child can create has some kind of magical value. The magic is in the tax evasion financials.

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Excellent lecture, educating and inspiring! Thank you

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I love that the algorithm threw this at me and I got to know that (spoiler alert) someone bled on a Donald Judd, aside from other things of course.

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Excellent! Thank you. Will watch a 2nd time.

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I feel the loss of Ana Mendieta must be mentioned when bringing up Carl Andre.

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Fiddlesticks. Word expressionism.

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