December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Minimalism was a broad art movement that emerged at the end of the 1950s. Its practitioners sought to strip away traditional endeavors of art such as personal expression, narrative content, aesthetic engagement, compositional hierarchies, and symbolic meaning. Instead, Minimalist artists asserted the primacy of the object itself and the importance of the experience of the object for the viewer unmediated by the artist.
• Use of simple geometric shapes or forms
• Use of primary colors
• Use of industrial or non-art materials
• Repetition of elements in rows or grids, avoiding any suggestion of hierarchy, compositional orchestration, or meaning
• Use of techniques that do not display the touch of the individual artist—impersonality ...