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Minimalism
Rating: 4.1 out of 5(15 ratings)
95 students

Minimalism

A Contemporary Art Course
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 3/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • At the end of this course students will be able to see better and appreciate the minimal and subtle variations in the world we see.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.
  • The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 41m total length

  • Introduction1:38

    Explore minimalism through the elements of art and the works of pioneers like Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Klein, Carl Andre, and Robert Magal.

  • Minimalism Lecture 26:07

    Discover how minimalism in art and design uses tone, line, shape, color, texture, space, and form to convey unity, harmony, and balance, with tone as central.

  • Minimalism Lecture 34:13

    Experience minimalist art through Agnes Martin's works, emphasizing inwardness and silence. Receive all essential information for each painting while withholding titles that don't convey meaning.

  • Minimalism Lecture 42:49

    Explore minimalism in this lecture, focusing on the fourth module of the course to illustrate its core ideas.

  • Minimalism Lecture 54:16

    Donald Judd stands as the leading international exponent of minimalism, shaping its vocabulary with stax boxes and progressions in specific objects; he uses enamel, aluminum, plywood, plexiglass, and translucent boxes.

  • Minimalism Lecture 64:16

    Explore Dan Flavin's minimalist fluorescent light installations, where the environment and reflections create striking compositions, from large glassworks to Guggenheim displays, highlighting this rare medium.

  • Minimalism Lecture 73:30

    Explore a minimalist artist whose cerebral, playful monochrome works use texture and body-based performances, plus pioneering anthropometric painting, monochrome sculptures, and daring fire art with blowtorches.

  • Minimalism Lecture 82:39

    Explore minimalism through Carl Andre's tessellated rectangular prisms, emphasizing repetition, and the tactile textures of metal, wood, plastic, and fabric.

  • Minimalism Lecture 92:28

    Explore minimalism in lecture 9, examining the caption's idea "A when the A you" and its implications for daily choices and simplicity.

  • Course Catalog9:46

Requirements

  • This course requires an interest and desire to learn more about Art and particularly Contemporary Art.

Description

Minimalism is a course on the works of the Minimalist artists. We first examine what minimalism is and how it is manifested in the visual world. After an introduction to the elements of design vocabulary we look at the application of these elements in the work of the various masters of Minimalism that we study in this course. The objective is to improve, expand and enrich our visual experience. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.  Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is beneficial to anyone interested in exploring the boundaries and possibilities of Minimalistic Art.

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