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[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.

Related genres:

   L'Informe

   The Monochrome