minimal art

or Minimal 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.

minimal art

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

Derived Forms

• minimal artist, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of minimal art¹

First recorded in 1965

Example Sentences

“They were remarkable for being so rich, luscious and sumptuous — everything you should not have been doing at a time when conceptual art and minimal art were in vogue,” Mr. Stevens said.

From New York Times

This art was shocking, as Wollheim observed, because it didn’t fit our usual idea of what art was: It had “minimal art content.”

From New York Times

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