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Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, ...

 


MINIMALISM
KEY DATES: 1962
Minimal Art emerged as a movement in the 1950s and continued through the Sixties and Seventies.

Minimalism rejects the need for social comment, self-expression, narrative, or any other allusion to history, politics, or religion. It is based on creating objects of interest and beauty.

Minimalism is a form of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner.

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Minimalism : Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features.

Minimalism
The Minimalist movement began in the 1950's and continued through to the 60's and 70's. Minimal art is characterized by its simplicity in both form and content, where personal expression is removed in order to achieve this.

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Minimalism began in the United States in the 1960's, but the movement influenced modern art around the world. Minimalism mostly refers to painting, sculpture, and installation work.

Minimalism emerged as a movement in New York in the 1960s, its leading figures creating objects which blurred the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and were characterized by unitary, geometric forms and industrial materials.

Minimalism and Conceptual Art aims to strip art to its barest and most essential elements.
Artists featured within this theme are Dan Flavin and Donald Judd.

Minimalism
A twentieth century art movement and style where the main idea is to reduce images to the lowest degree of simplicity in color and form. The Minimalist movement was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism.
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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.

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Minimalism is a nonrepresentational style of art, usually severely restricted in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses. The style came to prominence in the late 1960s.
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Minimalism
A non-representational style of sculpture and painting restrictive in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses.
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Minimalism. (1) Art patterned after Manhattan interiors in the Times "Style" section. (2) Art that makes the least effort possible while still earning an M.F.A. See Performance.

minimalism A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions.

Minimalism - This term is often used to refer to an artistic style where the individual elements of the subject are diminished. The minimalist style has been closely linked to the modern art movement of the 20th century.

Minimalism - A style of painting and sculpture in the mid 20th century in which the art elements are rendered with a minimum of lines, shapes, and sometimes color. The works may look and feel sparse, spare, restricted or empty.

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minuscule - A small letter. "Minuscule" appeared in the early 18th century as a word for certain ancient and medieval writing styles that had "small forms." Eventually, it came to be used for any lowercase letter.

Minimalism A style of art, predominantly American, that dates from the mid-20th century, characterized by its rejection of expressive content and its use of "minimal" formal means.

MINIMALISM - A Mid 20th Century style of painting and sculpture. The finished piece of art is reduced to a minimum number of lines, colours and shapes. Space and relationship of the elements are key in the art work.

MINIMALISM - A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience.

Minimalism: Began in the 1960s
Minimalism is a form of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner.

MINIMALISM Compositions in which one basic pattern is repeated again and again, providing a static, mesmeric quality reminiscent of Eastern forms.

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Minimalism (1960s-1970s): painting, prints, works on paper, sculpture. This term refers to the simplicity found in the use of basic shapes to create an image of great beauty.

Minimalism (1960s)
Minimal Art is a purist form of abstract art which become an influential style around the world in sculpture, painting and architecture.

Minimalism
A non-representational style of sculpture and painting, predominantly American, that dates from the late 1960s, characterised by its rejection of expressive content and its use of "minimal" formal means.

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Post-Minimalism - (See Minimalism.) Although minimalist art of the 1960s had a stripped-down, prefabricated look, striving to be free of content (free of allegorical qualities), ...

Abstract Expressionism preceded Tachisme, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism, ...

"The artist who did the most to humanize Minimalism without sentimentalizing it was Eva Hesse.

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About the Principles and Techniques of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism World Wide Arts Resources - Abstract Expressionism: (1940 - 1955)
Abstract Expressionism emphasized the depiction of emotions rather than objects.

In the 1970's the dominant styles of art - Minimalism and Conceptualism - seemed to no longer fit in a world struggling with a myriad of social problems; as a result, a plurality of styles developed.

Digital art, Computer art, Internet art, Hard-edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Appropriation, Hyperrealism, Photorealism, Expressionism, Minimalism, Lyrical Abstraction, Pop art, Op art, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, ...

Movements which were direct responses to, and rebellions against, abstract expressionism had begun, such as pop art and minimalism.

A 1960's art movement and style that attempts to use a minimal number of textures, colors, shapes and lines to create simple three-dimensional structures. Also known as minimalism.
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While its title and outline suggest a human profile, typically distinguishing features—nose, lips, and eyes—are absent. In its minimalism, Profile evokes a smooth, flat stone, a guitar pick, ...

Pop Art emerged in the mid 1950s in England, but realized its fullest potential in New York in the '60s where it shared, with Minimalism, the attentions of the art world.

and early 1970s agreed that the essential characteristic of painting was its flatness, a point of view especially formulated by the critic Clement Greenberg (American, 1909-). This led to post-painterly abstraction on the one hand and to minimalism ...

Abstract Expressionism (Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko)
New Realism (Christo, Yves Klein, Pierre Restany)
Minimalism (Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra) ...

However, much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and Minimalism are considered to be the last Modern art movements and thus the ...

minimalism - art style in which few elements are used to portray the artist's subject, idea or emotion, often consisting of simple shapes or masses *
mixed media - an artwork made with two or more different types of materials *
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See also: Movement, Painting, Expression, Sculpture, Expressionism

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