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Minimalism: Less is More !

The drive toward Minimalism in abstract art is as old as abstraction itself. Seurat was on its trail when he pioneered Divisionism. Malevich nearly perfected it with his Suprematist compositions. Sonia Delaunay expanded its parameters when she isolated color as subject. And Yves Klein redefined it when he proved that sometimes art need not be visible at all.


One test for whether you are a Minimalist is if you see the irony in the famous advice from Thoreau, « to simplify, simplify”. Reduce. Edit. Pare down what you want to say to its essentials. Minimalist foodies take pleasure in the gastronomic depth of a single ingredient. Minimalist musicians relish the sonic timbre of a single note. Minimalist decorators declutter. And Minimalist artists heed the wisdom of Donald Judd, that, “A shape, a volume, a color, a surface is something itself.”


Here is a selection of Minimal works, ranging from the distilled language of form and color in Gong (Trane) by Brent Hallard, to the pared down geometry of Winter Tulip 2 by Elizabeth Gourlay, to the organic clarity of Untitled (ID. 1289) by Fieroza Doorsen, which demonstrate the vivid range of Minimalist expression alive in contemporary abstraction, and prove that to simplify does not mean to be simplistic.

Winter tulip 2

Elizabeth Gourlay

38 x 40.6 cmPrintsSold

Untitled (Id. 1289)

Fieroza Doorsen

25 x 17 cmPainting

£1,250

1812P22061A+B

Pierre Muckensturm

170 x 180 cmPainting

£5,300

Shout 2

Holly Miller

91.5 x 91.5 cmPainting

£4,650

Eckige Masse 045

Kyong Lee

33 x 38 cmPainting

£550

Untitled 3 (K3)

Daniel Göttin

54 x 55 x 10 cmPainting

£6,600

Untitled 10

Claude Tétot

70 x 100 cmPainting

£2,750

Cut-Up Canvas I.5

Ulla Pedersen

60 x 60 cmPainting

£1,600

Whites

Pierre Auville

100 x 79 x 7 cmMixed Media

£1,800

Untitled (101.13)

Tilman

35.5 x 28 cmDrawing

£750

Border

Anya Spielman

50.8 x 50.8 cmPainting

£3,300

#1182

Arvid Boecker

50 x 40 x 5.5 cmPaintingSold

All for One

Clay Johnson

121.9 x 152.4 cmPainting

£9,650

Somewhere to Be

Debra Ramsay

48.3 x 45.7 x 0.6 cmPainting

£1,950

Tempo

Kim Uchiyama

40.6 x 30.5 cmPainting

£1,200

Intersect # 201701

Paul Snell

118 x 118 cmNew Media Art

£3,800

Intersect (Blue)

Macyn Bolt

96.9 x 122 cmPainting

£5,250

Cut 42

Harald Kröner

68 x 142 x 3 cmPainting

£3,400