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something

[elementary shapes and elementary non-shapes]




Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber:
Amphore, 1917
      






Tony Smith: Black Box, 1962
  




Tony Smith: Die, 1962
  



Marian Karel: Black Cube, 2000

    

Armando: Melancholie, 2005

     






James Lee Byars:
Golden Cylinder
  



James Lee Byars:
The Capital of the Golden Tower, 1991




James Lee Byars:
Monument to Language
  





Lucio Fontana: Torso, 1931




Leoncillo: Senza Titolo, 1960




Barry Flanagan: Casb 1, 1967



Richard Serra: Roll, 1968



Eva Hesse: Enclosed, 1969



Robert Rauschenberg:
Tampa Clay Piece, 1973



Wim T. Schippers:
Het Is Me Wat, 1999



     

 







Armando:
Der Kelch, 1993




Armando:
Der Kelch, 1997





Armando:
Gestalt, 1999



Armando: Kopf, 1999



Armando: Torso, 2001



Armando: Die Rote Schale, 2003



      



To add (elementary shapes): Pyramids; Platonic solids; Boulée;
To add (elementary non-shapes): early work by Wim T. Schippers (ca. 1962); Joseph Beuys.

To add: 2D version: stains & blots; Jean Fautrier.


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