Schemas
The Evolution of a Minimal Visual Art Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3280935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Emmett Mueller, Robert Mueller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1575565 |
| OpenAlex | W2331953636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
In the 1940s climate of artistic confusion, the author, then a student of art in New York City, had the impulse to try to create an extremely minimal art form. He developed the conviction that significant art could be made by using the most elementary media—a conviction confirmed by the history of art. Establishing certain basic constraints, he began to draw a series of crow-quill black-and-white images, inspired in part by Picasso illustrations and also by mathematical coordinate plots. He named the new art forms ‘Schemas’ because they reminded him of schematic diagrams. The author analyzes the elements of his Schemas, using examples culled from the hundreds he has created over the years, and shows how they evolved into color images. His position is that an artist need not use advanced media, such as computer graphics, to create a new and important art form
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Architecture and Art History Studies · Computer Science · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2010 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |