Just because a painting isn’t full of angels doesn’t mean it isn’t spiritual and transcendent.
A-Level: Pop abstraction + non-objective
Serra’s sculpture creates new spaces within the architecture of the room.
Richard Serra, Band
Inspired by a misinterpretation of a Renaissance church in Rome, this sculpture pushed the limits of technology.
Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipse IV
Serra guides you through his sculpture in the garden of MOMA.
Richard Serra, Intersection II
Art on the edge of perception—Ad Reinhardt works with the biology of human sight and rewards close looking.
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting
Judd’s boxes were made by factory workers, not by the artist—but he provided instructions.
Donald Judd, Untitled
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Are these objects the same size? Morris challenges our perception.
Robert Morris, (Untitled) L-Beams
Who should be the arbiter of taste—the person on the street, the artist, the courts?
Richard Serra, Tilted Arc
She was a pioneer of the “soak-stain method” of diluting acrylic paint and pouring it into unprimed canvas.
Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay
Baldessari adopts a familiar school-room punishment as a promise to himself.
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any ...
Using the medium of mass culture, Nauman brought high-brow questions about the role of art to broader society.
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