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)