Richard Tuttle's Light Pink Octagon

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Richard Tuttle began his career with a strong influence from the Betty Parson and the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. One of his earliest works, Light Pink Octagon, exhibits this influence for a new art form not necessarily made to be understood completely in a symbolic or emotional aspect. During the 1960’, when this piece of art was completed, a new root from expressionism emerged to further challenge the boundaries that artists constantly fought to expand. Tuttle forced critics and viewers towards the eradication of such boundaries and humbly demanded an open mind for the acceptance of art in its simplest and purest form. Minimalism sought to emphasize attention to the physical properties of space and materials as being the artwork