1. Minimalism

2. INTRODUCTION

movements in various forms of art and design, especiallyvisual artandmusic .

the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features.

movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

It is rooted in the reductive aspects ofModernism , and is often interpreted as a reaction againstAbstract Expressionismand a bridge toPostmodernart practices.

3. DEFINITION

The term "minimalist" is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials.

4. MINIMALISM

sometimes referred to asliteralist art [4]andABC Art [5]emerged in New York in the 1960s.

regarded as a reaction against the painterly forms ofAbstract Expressionismas well as the discourse, institutions and ideologies that supported it.

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Minimalists were influenced by composersJohn CageandLaMonteYoung , poetWilliam Carlos Williams , and the landscape architectFrederick Law Olmsted .

They very explicitly stated that their art was not self-expression, in opposition to the previous decade's Abstract Expressionists.

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Minimalism's features included:geometric , oftencubicforms purged of allmetaphor , equality of parts,repetition , neutral surfaces, and industrial materials.