Modernist and Minimalist artists shared a desire to create art outside the world of luxury goods and commodities, a desire that has resonated in different ways since Minimalism’s heyday. In the 1970s and 1980s, artists took courage from the work of the Minimalists and began to make art in the space of the land. Others tried thwarting the system by not making objects at all, instead making conceptual work in which the idea was paramount to its execution. More recently, contemporary artists have looked to early Minimalists’ reliance on mathematical systems, repetition and the grid for the basis of their own work. Others have absorbed the Minimalists’ reductive and austere approach and combined it with their own ideas of mark making, sparingly using color or form to get at more spiritual ideas about the human condition.