The above work is of Robert Ryman, flat, but also so spacious, especially the blue, black green, light green, is it an open or closed door? What is underneath the white of the surface. Is it red rose or white? What is hidden? The surface is poetic interesting! If i could i would rotate the canvas, i would walk around it, if it was lying on the ground. I think the work of the minimalists is spatially very complex and physical.
Which other artists are known as Minimalist artist? Lets take a look at the work of Donald Judd.
Judd also uses space as a tool. In combination with polished brass, he creates an interaction between form and space. Judd doesn't tell anything directly to the viewer, but he invites the viewer into a roo, to watch a game between light and shadow, you should be actively looking between the corners.Judd plays a psychological game with the viewer, a step closer or father away and you will experience the 3D object differently, another part of the frame will lighten up.
Judd generates space by color. Color and space are united. Judd calls : Materials, space and color the three main components of the visual arts. Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko had developed color on the flat canvas, but Judd went further by combining color with color the three dimensional. He let color float into space.
Lewitt, another artist who plays with the perception of the viewer. Thanks to the different points of view that perception is changing continuously. Through language Sol Lewitt gave meaning to his art, he found that if words are being used, and they come from ideas, they should be considered art. Lewitt's paintings are structured by detailed spacial relationships, made literal by language. Sollewit gave the work below the following title: Wall Drawing # 46: Vertical lines, not straight, not touching, Uniformly dispersed with maximum density covering the entire surface of the wall.
