Fine artists have developed systems and processes to create their work, and these approaches often cross boundaries between drawing, painting, sculpture and photography, use the list below to research some of these working processes:-
Robert Morris
Mario Merz
Agnes Martin
Bruce Nauman
Eva Hesse
Joseph Kosuth
Robert Morris was an American sculptor, artist and writer, he was known for minimalism, performance art, and the process movement.
Born in February 1931 and died in November 2018, Morris lived and worked in New York, Morris started a process and vision of pared down art in simple geometric shapes, not using metaphorical associations, and focused on the interaction with the viewer.
In the 1960’s Morris started some examples of minimalist sculpture, which were large repeated geometric forms, cubes, rectangles, with no surface texture, or expression. It forced the viewer to look at the arrangement and scale of the forms instead, which was the idea of minimalism.
Box with the sound of it’s own making, was a simple wooden cube, which was shown with a recording of the sounds produced during the construction. The recording was 3.5hrs in length, which looses all the mystery and intrigue behind the wooden box, it was tedious to make and time consuming.
@theartstory.org. Morris R [1961] Box with the sound of its own making.
Mario Merz was an Italian artist best known for his neon lights. Born in January 1925 and died in November 2003. Interested in nature and the relationship between it and his work, a seed or a leaf becomes a universe on his canvas.
In the 1960’s he liked to explore the organic and inorganic, the transmission of energy and this led him to use neon lights in his work.
lot of Merz work included neon numbers, the numbers counted the Fibonacci progression, the math formula for the growth in patterns, in life forms like a snails shell, leaves, pine cones and reptile skin. The pattern is used as a sequence of numbers that precede it, it represents the universal creation of growth, this is why he gets inspiration from nature and the natural form.
Merz M [1991] Fibonacci numbers, Centre for international light art Germany
Agnes Martin was an American abstract painter, born in March 1912 died in December 2004, her work was defined as an essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence.
Martin developed a signature format, a large 6 by 6 foot painted canvases, covered from edge to edge in meticulously pencilled grids and finished in a thin layer of Gesso.
Her palettes of beiges, greys, greens and creams were inspired by her biomorphic forms and geometric abstractions. Martin developed a progression of working in grids and then in later life in vertical and horizontal lines, in pinks and colours of the dessert, inspired by places she lived.
Martin A [1961] Oil and graphite on canvas, The Islands, Estate of Agnes Martin New York.
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