THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF EVA HESSE AND LYNDA BENGLIS ON CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE AND HOW THEY HAVE INFLUENCED MY WORK

The intent of this professional paper is to honor and credit Eva Hesse and Lynda Benglis of the Post-Minimal movement. In order to accomplish this I decided to compare and contrast their ideology and methodology with the Minimal Movement. In doing so, I found within the Minimal Movement, as with any particular stylistic methodology, a lot of contradictions. I would like to state that in its most basic conception, the Minimal artists concentrated on formal fundamentals of design. They created large geometric shapes that not only dominated a space but also proposed a nonrelational and nonhierachcal arrangement of forms. What I find extremely interesting is that Minimal art and Minimalistic art can mean two different aesthetics. When I talk about the Minimal art object I am referring to the object that reflects the intrinsic characteristics of the Minimal Movement. When I discuss my own work I am talking about the Minimalistic tendencies that pertain to the unaltered state of materials and the hand manipulation of materials that produces a pure and clear relation between the artist response to materials and the ability to transform media into aesthetic form. I have found that color, texture an