Basically, the New Brutalism requires that the building should be an immediately apprehensible visual entity, and that the form grasped by the eye should be confirmed by experience of the building in use.

Reyner Banham, “The New Brutalism,” 1955

These images image what I want to say, actually.

See what I mean?

Greenberg: “Too reductive” Necessary but insufficient conditions of painting (bad art) Fried: “Too literal” Inconceivable as painting (non-art)

Robert Mangold, Gray Wall, 1965

Will Insley, Wall Fragments, 1966Frank Stella @ 16 Americans, 1959

Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting, 1951

Tony Smith, Die, 1961 Robert Smithson, Mirror Corner Piece, 1968

Tony Smith, Die, 1961 Robert Morris (Green Gallery), 1964

modernism literalism transparency blank

clarity specificity

immediacy block

medium matter

flatness surface

Pictorialism Art Architecture Literalism

1967

Robert Morris, Untitled, 1965-7

Anthony Caro, Deep Body Blue, 1967