Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Abstraction is the dominant mode in the U.S. right now and accounts for approximately 50% of the paintings at the Whitney. How varied nonobjectiveness can be is illustrated by the op grids of Cleveland's Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold, and the sheet of lacquered aluminum from Los Angeles' Billy Al Bengston (representative of what one Whitney curator dubbed California's "finish fetish"). But abstraction as an end in itself is on the wane. Artists everywhere are tending to combine it with figurative elements, or give their abstractions...
...mock-up of Cigarette, double-size. It was a sensation. Next, Smith's works were assembled for a New York outdoor show. The great black forms were, if anything, even more impressive against the new-fallen snow, and Smith rapidly moved from being considered a cool minimalist to the hottest thing in sculpture...