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| Minimalist and/or
Post Minimalist art has more to do with the quality and type of
experience a person has when engaged in the making or viewing of art
than with the object being created or experienced. The object serves
its purpose by carrying the exact message of itself and nothing more
than that. By so doing the viewer has an opportunity to have a pure
experience of seeing unencumbered by the need to read meanings into the
object. By a process of careful exclusion the artist constructs his work to be completely and only itself as a flower or a rock or a mound of dirt is itself -it is not the messenger or representative of some other thing nor serves some other purpose. It is merely itself. Once the conceptual ground has been cleared and there is only the thing; minimal, singular, alone so that the artist and viewer alike are forced by this encounter with starkness to confront the ontological basis of the object and to clear their mind of all else, then the stage is set to rebuild the object from this knowledge of the object's concrete reality. It is in this way - through this sever ontological argument that all vestiges of previous art dialogs have been purged and all of art history flattened into this single present moment. With such a sever discipline there then follows play and also revolt. For some this play has been to abandon the object altogether and focus the attention on the mental sphere and the conceptuality that precipitates from it. But this leads primarily to the inevitable tendency for the accumulation of more and more layers of simulacrum. Others revolt and pretend this work either didn't happen or that it was a futile and now obsolete exercise. But perhaps they do not revolt. Perhaps they just have not yet arrived at this spiritual threshold of purification that minimalism is. When the confusion of excess and accumulation becomes overwhelming, that is each person's first step. Consciousness, that precious state of cognition, is the main thing to achieve and protect and the more clear and lucid one's consciousness the better. This clarity is achieved through perspicuous expression with simplicity and strait forwardness being hallmarks of such expression. A minimalist art object is fixed in place in its plasticity, its concreteness. Being about itself it downplays expressionistic tendencies of the artist and remains non-representational and non-objective. These qualities allow for the object to be appreciated to the degree that the viewer is capable of appreciating such things. A minimalist object encourages quietude, subtlety of mind and a meditative state in which a non-verbal response is key. These works in and of themselves are not really about any sort of dialog and yet, exactly for that reason and the fact that we are so driven by language, much dialog ensues. It is a kind of irony but one that is only relieved by stopping and just looking. JUST looking. That's the point: focused observation with a quiet mind. Perhaps the articulate viewer can reconstitute some of his experience into language but again, this is not the point. This is what places minimal art in an ever vulnerable position. As soon as people do not understand the process and goal of looking at this kind of art, the art itself becomes - in the mind - an incomprehensible enigma. It seems a mistake to take the idea of the minimal and try to take it |
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