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Claes Oldenburg and his cone. 

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#JohnChamberlain, "New Works" #DwanGallery, Los Angeles, #1966 - from #GermanoCelant's beautiful new(ish) monograph on my #currentobsession #VirginiaDwan and her #virginiadwangallery 🙌🏼

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In memory of Virginia Dwan—pioneering gallerist, collector and champion of Minimalist, Conceptual and Land art—we are reproducing here a few of her own photographs, from the book 'Flowers.' Documenting military graves in cemeteries across the United States, it was published by @radius.books in 2016⁠ ⁠ #ripvirginiadwan #virginiadwan #virginiadwanflowers #virginiadwancemeteries https://www.instagram.com/p/CikSY8YO3hX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Robert Smithson Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist who used photography in relation to sculpture and land art. American land artist Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey. From an early age Smithson expressed a profound interest in the arts. While still attending high school in Clifton, New Jersey, during the mid 1950s, he attended art classes on the side in New York City. For two years he was enrolled at ‘The Art Students League’ in New York and for a briefer period at ‘The Brooklyn Museum School’. Through his studies and training, Smithson became fascinated with the Abstract Expressionists, in particular with David Smith, Tony Smith, Jackson Pollock, and Morris Louis. Later in his career, Smithson said that he found David Smith's sculpture particularly captivating for its use of unnatural materials like steel, that were altered by time and natural elements, left to rust, decay and discolour. Several years before Smithson expressed any interest in ‘Minimalism’ or ‘Conceptual’ art and working with the natural environment, the young artist was drawing, painting and making collages. In the late 1950s, Smithson was noticed by art dealer Virginia Dwan and granted his first solo show at the Artists' Gallery in 1959. At this time, Smithson's paintings, drawings, and collages (he had yet to begin sculpting) drew in part on Abstract Expressionism; his works were multimedia but were still two-dimensional artworks made using gouache, crayon, pencil, and photography. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #robertsmithson #artist #landart #sculpture #painting #drawing #collage #minimalist #conceptualism #postminimalist #nancyholt #virginiadwan

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Robert Smithson Through his connection with Dwan, Smithson was introduced to several key artists and sculptors who were pioneering the ‘Minimalist’ art movement of the early-1960s, including Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, and Smithson's soon-to-be wife, Nancy Holt. Holt and Smithson married in 1963. The formation of these friendships would mark a significant turning point in Smithson's career. Smithson is one of the most influential artists of the diverse generation that emerged in the wake of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, known as the Post-Minimalists. Although inspired by Minimalism's use of industrial materials and interest in the viewer's experience of the space around the art object (as much as the object itself), the Post-Minimalists sought to abandon even more aspects of traditional sculpture. Smithson's approaches are typical of this group; he constructed sculptures from scattered materials, he found ways to confuse the viewer's understanding of sculpture (often by using mirrors or confusing scales) and his work sometimes referred to sites and objects outside of the gallery leading the viewer to question where the art object really resided. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #robertsmithson #artist #landart #sculpture #painting #drawing #collage #minimalist #conceptualism #postminimalist #nancyholt #virginiadwan

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Robert Smithson Although Smithson died at the age of only 35, his short career has inspired more young artists than most among the generation that emerged in the 1960s. A formidable writer and critic as well as an artist, his interests ranged from Catholicism to mineralogy to science fiction. His earliest pieces were paintings and collages, but he soon came to focus on sculpture; he responded to the ‘Minimalism’ and ‘Conceptualism' of the early 1960s and he started to expand his work out of galleries and into the landscape. In 1970, he produced the ‘Earthwork’, or ‘Land art’, for which he is best known ‘Spiral Jetty' a remarkable coil of rock composed of earth and black basalt rocks in the coloured waters of the shore of the ‘Great Salt Lake’ in Utah. In 1973, he died in an aircraft accident when he was surveying the site for another ‘Earthwork’ in Texas. Smithson not only coined the term ‘Land art’ he gave birth to the movement itself. Interestingly, Smithson's death could be said to have accelerated the ‘Land art’ movement. He inspired a new generation of artists to leave the studio altogether and create art out in the open. The movement represented a unique convergence of installation, ‘Conceptual’ art and environmental awareness. Adding a strange twist to the world of popular art most of Smithson's works were designed to be consumed by time and nature; thus they were constructed to have a finite life span. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #robertsmithson #artist #landart #sculpture #painting #drawing #collage #minimalist #conceptualism #postminimalist #nancyholt #virginiadwan