'What you see is what you see.'
Frank Stella
Taking Greenbergian formalism to a place that made even Greenberg nervous, the Minimalists rejected the romanticism (and soap opera) of Abstract Expressionism for a more rational, materialist and realistic approach. Minimalism: ABC Art, Literalist Art, Rejectionism – all these terms have been used to describe a period of art that emerged in America in the 1960's alongside Pop Art, Op Art and Conceptual Art. The Minimalists were interested in making non- relational, 'specific objects' that were neither paintings or sculptures so much as artless 'objects', 'structures' and 'proposals' which referred only to themselves.
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Monday July 1, Realism, Juliana Engberg
Monday July 8, Impressionism, Juliana Engberg
Wednesday July 17, Surrealism, Juliana Engberg
Wednesday July 24, Abstract Expressionism, Anthony White
Wednesday July 31, Minimalism, Callum Morton
Wednesday August 21, Postmodernism, Edward Colless
Wednesday August 28, Installation-ism, Callum Morton
Wednesday September 4, Catastrophism, Edward Colless
Monday September 30, Now-ism, Juliana Engberg
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