Minimalism and early abstraction

In 1962, the Russian constuctivist and suprematist movements of the 1910s and 1920s, such as the reduction of artworks to their essential structure and use of factory production techniques, became more widely understood – and clearly inspired minimalist sculptors.

• Dan Flavin produced a series of works entitled Homages to Vladimir Tatlin (begun in 1964)
• Robert Morris alluded to Tatlin and Rodchenko in his Notes on Sculpture
• Donald Judd ’s essays on Malevich and his contemporaries, revealed his fascination with this avant-garde legacy.