Themes > Arts > Painting > 20th-Century Painting > Minimalism

Emerged in the 1960's

Minimalism is a style of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner. It is an Abstract form of art which developed as a reaction against the subjective elements of Abstract Expressionism.

Minimalist art frequently takes the form of installations or sculpture, for example with Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt. However, there are also a number of minimalist painters, including Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella.


Chronological Listing of Minimalists


  Barnett Newman
  Agnes Martin
  Ad Reinhardt
  Ellsworth Kelly
  Sol Lewitt
  Robert Morris
  Dan Flavin
  Carl Andre
  Eva Hesse
  Frank Stella
  Robert Smithson
  Keith Sonnier
  Peter Halley
  Faye HeavyShield
 

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