Donald Judd helped found the minimalist movement in the 1960s. He primarily used box-shaped structures throughout his career and felt that art should exist independently of an artist's personal feelings. In his later years, Judd created large copper and brass structures with smooth features. He helped revolutionize modern sculpture by bringing basic shapes, space, and simple colors into focus. Dan Flavin was interested in fluorescent lights from an early career and felt that the lights and their shadows could stand alone as art forms. To Flavin, the lights created their own forms and he proceeded to make more works exploring how light affects spaces. Minimalism aims to be appreciated simply for what it is rather than an artist's intentions, pushing boundaries on what

1. Donald Judd
June 3, 1928-February 12, 1994
Judd helped find the minimalist movement. Primarly used box
shaped structures thought his career. He felt art went beyond
the artist feelings.
He began his career in the early 60’s and later went on to
criticism art of the time and he went on to create art the
he felt was disconnected the artist personal views and the
art should be just appreciated for what it is.

2. In his later years leading up to his death he created
many pieces that were large structures made of copper
and brass with smooth features.
Judd helped revolutionize modern sculpting by bring
in basic shapes, space and simple colors into focus.

3. Dan Flavin
April 1, 1933 - November 29,
1996
At the start of his career he showed
early interest in fluorescent lights
and other light fixtures
First major piece was icon V
(Coran's Broadway Flesh), 1962. A
brown boc with lights along the
sides.

4. “The radiant tube and the shadow cast by its supporting pan seemed
ironic enough to hold alone. There was literally no need to compose this
system definitively; it seemed to sustain itself
directly, dynamically, dramatically in my workroom wall—a buoyant
and insistent gaseous image which, through brilliance, somewhat
betrayed its physical presence into approximate invisibility.”
To Flavin the object and light created form the tubes
were able to stand alone as art and preceded to make
more work involving tubes and how the light effects the

5. Criticism
To many folks minimalism isn’t very well reserved. It is
sometime labeled as lazy, lifeless or just plain dull.
But the goal of minimalist artist isn’t to be flashy over
expressive. Minimalism is meant to be looked at for
simple what it is. Not what the artist could have been
thinking when they made it. It’s meant to push was
art can be defined as.