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date: 25 April 2025

Minimal art 

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Author(s):

Ian Chilvers

A type of abstract art, particularly sculpture, characterized by extreme simplicity of form and a deliberate lack of expressive content; it emerged as a trend in the 1950s and flourished particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. The roots of Minimal art can be traced to the geometrical abstractions of ... ...

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