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minimalism

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
minimalism schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity. Minimalism in the Visual Arts Reacting against the formal excesses and raw emotionalism of abstract expressionism , the practitioners of minimal art (also sometimes called ABC art) strove to focus attention on the object as an object, reducing its historical and expressive content to the bare minimum. Many minimalist artists were sculptors concerned with reducing form to its utmost simplicity. They used flat surface colors, factory finishes, and industrial... Read more
The Art of Less: Minimalism
THE ART OF LESS: MINIMALISM Back to Basics As the gulf between high and low...rather than content or meaning. The result was named minimalism by art critic Barbara Rose. Painting Minimalism first appeared in paintings by artists, such as... Read more
Post-Minimalism
Post-Minimalism. A term coined in 1971 by the American...entitled ‘ Eva Hesse : Post-Minimalism into Sublime’ in the November...implies a reaction against the values of Minimalism, but sometimes it is used more neutrally... Read more

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