During the 1960s and 1970s, a number of Southern California artists—inspired by the local physical, social, and technological environments—experimented with perceptual and phenomenological concerns. Often grouped as “light and space” and “finish fetish” artists, their work utilized high-tech materials, particularly plastics, resins, and coated glass.
Untitled by Robert Irwin, 1970
Sculpture, Cast acrylic
LACMA
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries is the museum for Dia Art Foundation's renowned collection of art from the 1960s to the present. The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architect OpenOffice.
Modern Artists on ArtBy Robert L. Herbert
Edition: 2, illustrated
Published by Courier Dover Publications, 2000
ISBN 0486411915, 9780486411910
185 pages
Read the full text of Mondrian's essay.
Get a closer look at Irwin's 2006 installation Who's Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue. The artwork was inspired by the famous Barnett Newman painting of similar color.
Venice Beach, originally referred to as "Venice of America" was home to many Californian artists such as Robert Irwin. Find out more about the history of this artsy beach town.
Learn more about the Panza Collection through the Hirshhorn Museum official website. Image to the left: Joseph Kosuth's Box, Cube, Empty, Clear, Glass—a Description, 1965, from the Hirshhorn's Collection
Warhol's Brillo Box changed the philosophy of art.
"In 1964, the Kantian question was: how was Brillo Box possible?"
To read more, go to the September, 1993 article by Arthur Coleman Danto in Artforum magazine linked below.
The Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego
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Take a virtual walk through UCSD's Stuart Collection among the eucalyptus trees and discover Irwin's Two Running Violent V Forms by clicking on the link below!
The garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles is not only jaw dropping but also a most impressive aspect of the museum's layout. Take a look at the link below and decide for yourself!
Scroll through images of Donald Judd's art in MOMA's collection and see why he was considered one of the most important figures of the minimalist movement.
Donald Judd
Untitled (Stack)
1967
Dan Flavin is best known for the use of fluorescent lights in his artwork. Michael Govan considers the ways Flavin
thought about his light constructions in his essay here:
In L.A., an artist with a fascination for parking lots may not be so far-fetched. Photographer/print artist Edward Ruscha captured images of the concrete fields so prominent in the city's landscape. Follow the link for examples of Ruscha's Parking Lots at LACMA's online collection.
This New York Times article will give you better insight into Robert Irwin's perspective on L.A. tourists.
"Why not ‘curate’ the palm tree? Let’s give people what they want to see in Southern California.”-Robert Irwin
irwin and Govan
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