minimal art

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.

Origin of minimal art

1
First recorded in 1965

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British Dictionary definitions for minimal art

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 of minimal art

  • minimal artist, noun

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