Conceptualism & Minimalism

Sol Lewitt (1928 – 2007)

Buried Cube Containing an Object of Importance but Little Value (1968)

“An object he buried in the garden of Dutch collectors, was his deadpan gag about waving goodbye to Minimalism. He documented it in photographs, in one of which he stands at attention beside the cube. A second picture shows the shovel; a third, him digging the hole.”

NY Times, 2007

2D + 3D (1974)

Four-Sided Pyramid (1997)

Wall Drawing 797 (1995)

According to the principle of his work, LeWitt's wall drawings are usually executed by people other than himself.

The first drafter has a black marker and makes an irregular horizontal line near the top of the wall. Then the second drafter tries to copy it (without touching it) using a red marker. The third drafter does the same, using a yellow marker. The fourth drafter does the same using a blue marker. Then the second drafter followed by the third and fourth copies the last line drawn until the bottom is reached.

A wall drawing and a sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000)

Donald Judd (1928 – 1994)

Untitled (1969)

Untitled (1965)

Untitled (1971)

Untitled (1976)

Untitled (1974)

Dan Flavin (1933 – 1996)

Untitled (To Barbara Lipper)

“monument” to V. Tatlin

(1964)

Untitled (1963)

Untitled (1972-73)

Untitled (1969)

Fluxus (A Conceptual Art Group)

Taking its name from the Latin word for "flow," the international Fluxus movement advocated purging the world of bourgeois, commercial, and professional art. The interdisciplinary movement included books, boxes, manifestos, posters, photographs, films, and performance relics: art that crossed boundaries between painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and performed events..

"Fluxus is not: a movement, a moment in history, an organization. Fluxus is: an idea, a kind of work, a tendency, a way of life, a changing set of people who do Fluxworks."—Dick Higgins

Christo: “Package” (1965)

Robert Watts: “Fingerprint” (1965-69)

George Brecht, and George Maciunas: “cc V TRE” (Fluxus newspaper # 1) (1964)