Minimal Art: The 25 Most Important Minimal Artists

Today we take on Minimal Art, presenting a definition, listing the main characteristics and discussing the 25 most important minimal artists. As we only discussed the artists in question briefly, for further reading on we highly recommend the following books:

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Table of contents:
0:00 – I. Introduction
0:45 – II. Definition of Minimal Art
1:07 – III. Main Characteristics of Minimal Art
1:32 – 1. Carl Andre
2:40 – 2. Dan Flavin
3:20 – 3. Donald Judd
3:58 – 4. Sol LeWitt
4:40 – 5. Robert Morris
5:12 – 6. Stephen Antonakos
5:45 – 7. Jo Baer
6:29 – 8. Larry Bell
6:59 – 9. Ronald Bladen
7:31 – 10. Mary Corse
7:59 – 11. Walter De Maria
8:21 – 12. Robert Grosvenor
8:59 – 13. Carmen Herrera
9:38 – 14. Eva Hesse
10:21 – 15. Gary Kuehn
10:56 – 16. Robert Mangold
11:35 – 17. Agnes Martin
12:08 – 18. John McCracken
12:42 – 19. Charlotte Posenenske
13:27 – 20. Robert Ryman
13:50 – 21. Fred Sandback
14:33 – 22. Richard Serra
14:58 – 23. Tony Smith
15:24 – 24. Robert Smithson
15:57 – 25. Anne Truitt
16:26 – Outro

Bibliography:
For the introduction we used Daniel Marzona, Minimal Art published by Taschen.

[contemporaryartissue]

Hello dearest readers and subscribers. Today we take on Minimal Art, presenting a definition, listing the main characteristics and discussing the 25 most important minimal artists. As we only discuss the artists in question briefly, for further reading we highly recommend certain monographic publications (linked in the description). Feel free to share your view on Minimal Art, the selected artists or the video in general in the comments. We value your opinion and love to engage with our readers, so hear you soon!

[DanielLopes-jtyl]

I make comment to to Carl Andre work and belabored so deleted. However picking up here hopefully less truncated. What prompted me to say something in the first place-was Andre’s reference to communism. I took to bring up in the deleted post the Russian constructivist use meaning of material and art. I took to differ a bit as the practical purpose of materials to art leans toward socialism. That materials should influence proletariat (workers councils) toward advancing control of the means of production. That materials have a practical esthetic purpose that aligned with it’s use. That workers surrounded by such objects would be influenced by them. Valdimir Tatlin long a favorite of mine I believed was instrumental with Tristan Tzara (Romanian symbolist) in shaping Andre’s art idea. I am not as gifted at unpacking art history or placing it as succinctly as CAI. To degree because it has been long since thinking of these things. Your videos have been great getting me back to such ways. I paint and draw now. No more assemblage or construction but do hope my point is better made here..

[Subbuteoplayer]

The only problem with this kind of Artwork is ... Eighty percent of it only works in a gallery space . Therefore its only really appreciated properly in that space or by photography of the works or video such as this . And photography and videos don't really do the work justice.
Thoughts ?
Obviously some minimal artworks work tremendous in the environment also .
But as an artist myself trying to break through with this type of artwork is extremely difficult to achieve. Because without a gallery to show it in, basically your doomed before you begin.

[johnconn]

Sadly, no mention of Barnet Newman, or Ellsworth Kelly.

[johannbrandstatter]

Fully deserving the minimum of attention !

[tomelifeisjustonebig]

Carl Andre is very important. Except to his third wife…

[cliff_see]

Sol LeWit, the only artist here... the others totally boring work. Judd, the most boring art of all... Richard Serra is not a minimalist.

[johnryskamp]

The British are a-visual. They just don't do visual art. Minimal art is not from the 50s at all and doesn't have anything to do with abstraction. It has more to do with Brancusi or Warhol (serial imagery). The main problem with minimalists is that either they don't develop or the quality of their work deteriorates (check out Morris' later work, it's like Stella's later work, godawful). Lewitt was never a major minimalist--Structures is pure conceptualism. What about minimalist painters, Marden or Poons. You think minimalism is only a sculptural movement. What about Rainer, the minimalist dancer? As for Judd, his art is pretty mean-spirited and uninteresting. Serra is really a 4th rate process artist. Also Smithson, he's not a minimalist either. Martin an important artist? You're drinking the Kool-aid. Also, the industrial materials take doesn't go very far. Everything people make is industrial. Since when is Ryman a minimalist? He's just mediocre. I think there is actually a Sandback museum. What a joke!!!