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Minimalism and Washington Color School:
This gallery features a number of works by artists associated with Minimalism. These artists adopted a pared-down approach to materials and form, and challenged conventions between painting, sculpture, object and dea [???] . Ellsworth Kelly's shaped canvas with Red Triangle, 1973, exemplifies his pursuit of reducing the visual world to its most basic components, aiming to create something new from the landscape and architecture of daily life. Martin Puryear's poetic and seemingly simple works draw attention to the interaction of solidity and light; his sculpture Blue Blood, 1979, essentially a line drawing in wood.
Gene Davis and Anne Truitt both worked for many years in and around Washington DC. Truitt's Insurrection, 1962, is a monumental painting in three dimensions while Davis's iconic stripe paintings have become emblematic of the Washington Color School. Working from the 1950s, this diverse group of artists abandoned representation and created works that command space with color and scale. |