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Answer & Explanation:DIRECTIONS: You will read the writings of one artist from a list provided. They will identify their artist and provide the
citation at the top of the post. For example, Carl Andre, “Preface to Stripe Painting (1959),” in Stiles and Selz,
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1996), 124. You will then outline that artist’s goals and concerns in relation to one artwork by the artist or author.
They will include two direct quotations from the artist’s writing and appropriately cite their sources using
parenthetical citations. Embedded hyperlinks to other relevant sites or to other images, quotations, and terms
may be necessary; kudos for including them. Remember the benefit of this web-based writing is that you can
link to the entire internet! Utilize those resources in adding to the content of your individual post! You will post their 350-word response, along with an active hyperlink to the image they chose. They must
include the hyperlink along with caption information (Artist, title, date. Medium, dimensions, location,
copyright information). For example: In Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, Paik
created a fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), and utilized custom
electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood. The work is approximately 15 x 40 x 4? and is located at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum. (© Nam June Paik Estate) Since these are online forever (!), Dr. Slipp reserves the right to ask you to edit your text or work with Tori. Artist texts: choose one – Gestural Abstraction: David Smith, Statements, Writings (1947-52). Geometric Abstraction: Ellsworth Kelly, Notes of 1969. Figuration: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Statements (1979-94). Pop: Andy Warhol, Warhol in his own words: Untitled statements (1963-87). Art & Technology: Nam June Paik, Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television (1964). Installations: James Turrell, Mapping Spaces (1987). Process: Eva Hesse, Untitled statements (1968, 1969, n.d.). Performance Art: Allan Kaprow, Untitled Guide for Happenings (c. 1965). A blog post example: When is a stripe just a stripe? Andre on Stella Carl Andre, “Preface to Stripe Painting (1959),” in Stiles and Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary
Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 124. Minimalist Carl Andre wrote the short text “Preface to Stripe Painting” in 1959 for Dorothy C. Miller’s Sixteen
Americans catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
(MoMA). In it, Andre outlines his view of fellow artist Frank Stella’s stripe paintings, such as The Marriage of
Reason and Squalor, II (1959), a series of works t

hat organize freehand black enamel paint stripes into linear
configurations. For Andre, Stella’s work is subjectless; or, to put it another way, the subject is only the stripe.
Andre writes: “There is nothing else in the painting.” (124) Andre seems to support Stella’s interest in the selfreflexive
nature of painting, stating that the works are “not symbolic,” or expressive. (124) Instead, the stripes
only evoke “the paths of brush on canvas” and therefore “lead only into painting.” (124) For Andre, Stella’s
paintings are about painting; about the action of mark making. He privileges the control of the artist’s hand on
the brush as it touches the canvas. In a larger context, Andre’s writing supports the central goals of the
minimalist movement, a “style that uses pared-down elements” to explore the limits of the expressive
capabilities of the medium. Indeed, he opens his text by stating: “Art excludes the unnecessary.” (124) While Andre is writing about fellow artist Frank Stella, we could easily apply this interest in the “medium as
the message,” to quote Marshall McLuhan, to Andre’s own minimalist sculptures of the late-1960s. For
example, Andre’s 144 Lead Square of 1969 is comprised of 144 one-foot square tiles of lead organized into a
twelve by twelve grid and laid on the floor. When assembled, the grid therefore measures 12 foot by 12 foot
and is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This sculpture is all about materials and, like
Stella’s stripes, was one in a series of works. Andre made six square sculptures each of a different material:
aluminum, steel, zinc, magnesium, copper, and lead. Each work “presented [the materials] in their raw state.”
The sculptures also embraced the rigid precision of the gridded form of the tiles. Finally, the artwork was about
the floor itself and about flatness, as visitors were invited to walk upon the sculpture in the gallery. If, in his
1959 text, Andre had supported Stella’s interest in the formal qualities of the painted stripe, by 1969 he too had
“excluded the unnecessary” in his own work in order to focus exclusively on material (different metals) and on
form (the square). – Naomi __________________________________________________________________ The example text: “Art excludes the unnecessary. Frank Stella has found it necessary to paint stripes.
There is nothing else in his painting. Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessities of
painting. Symbols are counters passed among people. Frank Stella’s painting is not symbolic. His stripes
are the paths of brush on canvas. These paths lead only into painting.” Carl Andre, “Preface to Stripe Painting (1959),” in Stiles and Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary
Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 124.