5-504: Brenda Miller (born 1941) is an American post-minimalist visual artist. She has shown her work in the 1973 Whitney Biennial , as well as eight exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art . Born in the Bronx, she studied at Parsons and University of New Mexico , and received and MFA from Tulane University in 1967, before moving back to New York City. She received three National Endowment for
10-406: A generative art practice. Like Fluxus , Postminimalism is more of an artistic tendency than a particular style, but in general, postminimalist artworks often use everyday objects, simple materials, and sometimes take on a pure formalist aesthetics or post-conceptual approaches. However, since postminimalism includes such a diverse and disparate group of artists, it is impossible to enumerate all
15-401: Is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism . The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts , but can refer to any field using minimalism as a critical reference point. In music, postminimalism refers to music following minimal music . Postminimalist visual art uses minimalism either as a conceptual art aesthetic or
20-787: The Arts Fellowships (1976, 1979, and 1987). Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and the Harvard Art Museums. This article about an artist from the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Postminimalism Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism ) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 and used in various artistic fields for work which
25-564: The continuities and similarities between them. But as two opposing examples, take the work of Eva Hesse and her use of modern art grids and minimalist seriality that were usually hand-made, introducing a human element into minimalism in contrast to the machine fabrication more typical of the minimalism of someone like Carl Andre . Richard Serra was another prominent postminimalist though his large metal sculptures are completely machine made. In its general musical usage, "postminimalism" refers to works influenced by minimal music , and it
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