The White Cube

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from? The earliest form of the white cube can trace its origins back to the beginning of modern art and its creators. Abstract artist to be exact are the creators that could possibly be given credit for coming up with the white cube, even though they were not trying to. This is because the white cube spawns from the sterile and laboratory like studios of the earl abstract artist, whom where some of the first to start making what we now call modern art. There studios were like this because they wanted nothing to distract them from what they were trying to create on their canvasses, the plain white walls and clean rooms that they were surrounded by where perfect for just that. The missing link between the artist studio and what we now know as the white cube can be accredited to early European galleries. In the time shortly after world war I Europe and Germany in particular started to show a new genre known and abstract art. The way that they displayed the art was quite different ...

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world, they quickly showed the art world that this was the way in which modern art should be displayed. Although between now and then the white cube has received some criticism from artists like Claes Oldenberg and Hans Haacke who did not believe in the purest ways of the white cube, in the modern world that we live in today the white cube has shown time after time that it is the most effective way to display modern art and make the viewer give their full attention to the one piece that they are looking at.
When learning about the white cube, we were to read an essay written by Christoph Grunenberg. In this essay you were thought about the history of the white cube through a ...

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