Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ANADOLU UNIVERSITESI SANAT & TASARIM DERGISI-ANADOLU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN, cilt.15, ss.460-477, 2025 (ESCI, TRDizin)
The Bauhaus School's establishment of art and design education based on design elements and principles can be considered as a historical turning point. This school, which deeply influenced modern art and design concepts, abstract art and design education, began to be questioned, criticized and rejected years later within the framework of the postmodern perspective and changing social, historical and cultural phenomena. However, artists, designers and art educators have felt the need to reconsider this teaching. Of course, they were not exactly the same as in their historical origins, but they reflected their original expressions within the relationality of individual and social contexts. In this text, the works of Sol LeWitt, On Kawara and Hanne Darboven are analyzed in terms of the commonalities in their repetitive use of design elements such as lines and points. It is aimed to draw attention to the meaning(s) and conceptuality created by these artists, who realize conceptual productions with a minimalist approach, through the repetition of units, one of the basic design principles. For this purpose, the conceptual images belonging to the mental perception search, questioning and thinking processes that the artists focus on in their works are analyzed with the information obtained from the literature review and interpreted in the context of unit repetition.