minimal art

American  

Or Minimal Art

noun

1. a chiefly American style in painting and sculpture that developed in the 1960s largely in reaction against abstract expressionism, shunning illusion, decorativeness, and emotional subjectivity in favor of impersonality, simplification of form, and the use of often massive, industrially produced materials for sculpture, and extended its influence to architecture, design, dance, theater, and music.

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minimal art British  

noun

1. abstract painting or sculpture in which expressiveness and illusion are minimized by the use of simple geometric shapes, flat colour, and arrangements of ordinary objects

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Other Word Forms

• minimal artist noun

Etymology

Origin of minimal art

First recorded in 1965

Example Sentences

But it’s all tied together with a slick, minimal art style and frantic pop music soundtrack.

From The Verge

Like so many of the artists beatified at Dia’s permanent collection in Beacon, Flavin saw his minimal art as a tool to modify viewers’ perception, and privileged bodily and visual experience above all.

From New York Times

In an essay for Arts Magazine, the British philosopher Richard Wollheim used it to describe a group of artists whose work was characterized by “minimal art content” — that is, a lack of art.

From New York Times

The stars of Pop and minimal art did so, though in most cases with some degree of irony.

From The New Yorker

"Forgotten Shores" features the same wonderfully minimal art style, but this time the visuals are much more diverse.

From The Verge