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From 1965 to 1973, she created drawings, paintings, and sculpture that demonstrated her affinity for exploring color through a very reduced formal vocabulary of geometric shapes… For Chicago, minimalism was more than a phase, it was a formative approach the artist integrated into her later work.
From 1965 to 1973, she created drawings, paintings, and sculpture that demonstrated her affinity for exploring color through a very reduced formal vocabulary of geometric shapes… For Chicago, minimalism was more than a phase, it was a formative approach the artist integrated into her later work.
14 lis 2019 · Chicago has, in fact, been at the forefront of many major art movements and the aesthetics that were forged in California in the 1960s and ’70s—from Pop art to Minimalism and Light and Space; from body art to installation art —though she was never accepted by them.
28 maj 2020 · Born Judy Cohen in Chicago, Illinois, in 1939, Chicago attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles. Chicago’s early work was Minimalist, and she was part of the landmark Primary Structures exhibition in 1966 at The Jewish Museum in New York.
Inspired by the women's movement and rebelling against the male-dominated art scene of the 1960s, which lionized the Minimalist work of artists like Donald Judd, Chicago embraced explicitly female content.
Among her earliest nationally recognized works was the Minimalist Rainbow Picket, included in a landmark 1966 New York City exhibition, Primary Structures. In 1969, she created an early pyrotechnical work, Purple Atmosphere. By the early 1970s, Chicago had dedicated herself to feminist expression.
From 1965 to 1973, she created drawings, paintings, and sculpture that demonstrated her affinity for exploring color through a very reduced formal vocabulary of geometric shapes… For Chicago, minimalism was more than a phase, it was a formative approach the artist integrated into her later work.
