Sculpture 1950-2000
"By 1960, sculptors had been liberated by the modernist movement and no longer felt constrained by classical traditions. Many artists of the 1960s embraced Minimalism, where form was reduced to its simplest terms. Artists such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and many others worked this way, which was essentially an anti-narrative approach and celebrated the reductionist model of Piet Mondrian and Kasimir Malevich. During the 1970s or the Post-Minimal era (a term coined by art
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Sculpture 1950-2000
"By 1960, sculptors had been liberated by the modernist movement and no longer felt constrained by classical traditions. Many artists of the 1960s embraced Minimalism, where form was reduced to its simplest terms. Artists such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and many others worked this way, which was essentially an anti-narrative approach and celebrated the reductionist model of Piet Mondrian and Kasimir Malevich. During the 1970s or the Post-Minimal era (a term coined by art critic Robert Pincus-Witten), artists such as Eva Hesse and Richard Tuttle treated Minimalism with a more sensory or softer approach, by incorporating new materials including glass, fabric, and plastic latex. These sculptors loosened up the strict lines of early Minimalism or the “white cube syndrome” as it was sometimes called. By the 1980s, there was a swing back to figurative work that emphasized human issues and provided a visual story line of some kind. The Young British Artists became central figures in the 1980s and 1990s art scene, led by Tony Cragg and made famous by Damien Hirst and his experimental work involving animal parts. By 2000, artists such as Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith (daughter of Minimalist sculptor Tony Smith), Richard Gober, among many others were creating thought provoking work in the figurative tradition and commenting on issues of our contemporary culture, including politics, war, advertising, social mores and injustices. Today, museums and collectors are taking a closer look at sculpture from 1960 to the present and giving the work the same high status as work created by the leading painters of this period. "
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Examples of Sculpture 1950-2000 at Auction
Artists Associated with Sculpture 1950-2000 — 19 artists:
