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In recent years, minimalism has come to refer to anything or anyone that is spare or stripped to its essentials. The art style known as minimalism got its start in Western art after World War II, although it was most prominent in American visual arts throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism’s original objectives. Minimalism’s key objectives were to strip away conventional characterisations of art through bringing the importance of the object or the experience a viewer has for the object with minimal mediation from the artist. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt and Frank Stella.
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| Port Tampa City, part of Frank Stella’s ‘Dartmouth Paintings’, thirteen artworks produced during Stella’s artist residency at Dartmouth College in 1963. The inspiration for this star-shaped painting can be traced back to Stella’s 1961 visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Annie Pfeiffer Chapel on the campus of Florida Southern College. |   Image source: NY Times [1723-11] |
  Image source: Guggenheim Museum [1723-12] | Carl Andre‘s 100 Copper Square, defines the room space by both the work and the spectator, who is able to freely walk across it |
| Donald Judd artworks explore simplicity, seriality, and the relationship between space and objects. They are considered to be at the conceptual origins of Minimalism This 1967 work is called Untitled. |   Image source: [1723-13] |
  Image source: The Menil Collection | In 1990, Dominique de Menil approached Dan Flavin to create a permanent, site-specific installation on the southernmost point of the Menil’s campus. He called it simply Installation. Visitors are welcomed by two of Flavin’s sculptures before entering a 6,400-square-foot main room filled with alternating pink, yellow, green, and blue fluorescent tubes. |
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