17. Ellsworth Kelly “ Everywhere I looked, everything I saw, became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added.”
-an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color -personal expression is removed in order to achieve simplicity -
Simmilar to pop: -mass produced -aesthetically indifferent -alienated -w/o offering observer any kind of sensual gratification
Seen as cold because it doesn’t have any meaning behind. It just has a empty feel behind it. You don’t get any emotions out of it. Just a simple “picture” to express It isolates itself from majority of pictures because of the uniqueness in the paintings. The way its shaped and designs has a simple taste to it rather than a emotional feeling people say that mini artist misunderstand art because they approach it as cold and unattached but not all modern art is that way.
History about him
-not inspired by the art itself -this lead him to make an almost to scale model of these windows. -after this, he gave up his easel painting because it was too personal. (key element in minimalism=no personal attachments.)
Take things from the everyday world and put them in plain/ simple color.
Different way of looking at things. -exhibit where viewers had to be driven to and from the sight.
After mini artists did the paintings on flat surfaces they shifted it to 3 D pieces of art. They wanted to bring their paintings into a dimensional form that cought the audience attention. The Edges, shapes of the rooms could be used now. Artists made minimalism pieces of work to be made in houses and buildings.
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