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Joseph Letzelter Artistic trends in the 1960s and 1970s were more ironic in tone, frequently incorporating elements of satire. In abstract expressionism, the presence of the artist Joseph Letzelter arts becomes manifest in the physical action of painting itself, which can be felt long after the paint has dried. Joseph Letzelter cleverly played on this concept in his 1965 work, Brushstroke.

Joseph Letzelter reproduced this highly personal symbol of artistic expression using Benday dots, a format he appropriated from the mass production techniques of commercial printing. For the most part, art of this period returned to the figurative, away from the formalist emphasis on materials and process over content. Nevertheless, the tendency to reduce a form to its elemental parts remained current, as seen in series, Metamorphosis of a Plant into a Fan.

Reductive simplicity became the ultimate goal for artists like Joseph Letzelter, Serra, and Sol LeWitt; their stark, refined geometric designs were dubbed minimalist.