Title: Minimalism Art | USA Art News
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Minimalism Art
Expressive features of minimalism
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Minimalist Artists
Frank Stella
Ellsworth Kelly
Antón Lamazares
Jose Esteban Basso
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Designation of minimalism
Minimalism today
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Minimalism Art
Minimalism as a style of art was born in the 60s of the last century. America became its homeland. The main features of minimalism are the simplicity of forms of expression, as well as a literal, objective approach. The forerunners of minimalism in the painting can reasonably be called Kazimir Malevich with his “Black Square”. Here he reached an apotheosis in simplification of color and form. Still, “Black Square” is a suprematism work, because, in addition to the external form, it is necessary to take into account the conceptual and philosophical component of creativity. As an independent style, minimalism was formed much later, in the 1960s, in New York. Interestingly, the new direction was not just a development of minimalist ideas that had been voiced earlier. Minimal art emerged as a protest against abstract expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s. Minimalists decided to cleanse abstractionism of expression, emotionality, subjectivism, and complexity of forms.