as art. The designer of the urinal had more work on it. Even the worker in the factdry had more effort given to it. But what Duchamp did was to present it to the public in a tilted position -a way people are not used to seeing it- and say this is art because I have my signature on it. I think this tells us the most about minimalism. Why must an artist create something completely new by putting days of work in it, why an artist can not use ready made object or objects and say I am using the meaning the object(s) already have in them?Even more, minimal art is not always minimal. Artists sometimes used large amunts of readymade objects as in 37 Pieces of Work (2)in Guggenheim Museum uses 1,296 pieces. This shows us that minimal artists were interested in readymade objects not only for their simplicity but meaning.Images need to be on a surface and you have to create a space on the flat surface. Minimalists preferred to use three dimensional objects because they had an actual space around them which is more effective than depicted space (Again more is obtained by less). Here they use the readymade space around the object.A related matter to space is the environment. When you put an object in a room, the walls,ceiling, floor and any other object becomes a part of the artwork preparing the environment which in an image you have to prepare. Placement in the environment can be changed with objects while images must remain on the same place.All this simplicity is very suitable to the philosophy of minimalism.Minimalist artists concern was to create decorative installations rather than artistic images.It is obvious that objects serve better to that purpose. They also wanted their art to be simple and pure. They wanted it to be portable, detachable and storable... They wanted the maximum with minimum....
