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Minimal Art.
A term that came to be used in the late 1950s to distinguish a tendency among artists following the generation of Abstract Expressionists, and reacting against them by eschewing emotional effects and seeking to present an austere, ...
Minimal Art is a purist form of abstract art which become an influential style around the world in sculpture, painting and architecture.
[edit] Minimal art, minimalism in visual art
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Minimal artists wanted their artwork to be enjoyed without the distraction of deciphering a deeper meaning. Therefore, minimalist artwork did not contain emotional comments, or reference subject matters, personal statements, or symbolic meanings.
Minimal Art emerged as a movement in the 1950s and continued through the Sixties and Seventies.
Some Post-Minimal artists were interested in extending Minimalism's interest in anonymity and in emptying artwork of the artist's personal expression.
The term "Minimal art" was coined in 1965 by the critic Richard Wollheim and encompassed a wide diversity of associated styles and concepts, among them ABC art, Object sculpture, Cool art, Primary structures, and Literalist art.
Lyrical Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along with the continuation of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Hard-edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop Art, ...
Minimal art is characterized by its simplicity in both form and content, where personal expression is removed in order to achieve this.
And, finally, the purist aesthetics of Minimal Art made their own contribution to the uproar Guston caused in 1970.
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Minimalism: a movement and style of art from the 20th century which attempts to reduce art to the basic geometric shapes with the fewest colors, lines, and textures. Minimal art does not seek to be representational of any object.
He is credited, together with Robert Rauschenberg, with leading American art in the 1950s away from Abstract Expressionism into Pop Art and Minimal Art. For more on his life and paintings, read this chronology from MoMA.
Other names for the movement include ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art. Minimalism was a reaction against the formal overkill and pretentiousness of Abstract Expressionism.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, Sculpture, Expressionism
  
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