Category details
CategoryMinimal
Alternative termsMinimalism
SourceArt & Architecture Thesaurus
Overview
Generally of all art, including literature. design, music, visual art, and performance, a style characterized by simplicity, and lack of decoration to the point of starkness. With specific reference to music, it means a style tht emerged in the United States in the 1960s featuring prolonged repetition of short passages and unvarying harmonies. With specific reference to the visual arts, abstract art movement and style predominantly of sculpture that flourished in the mid- and late 1960s. The movement advocated reducing art to the state of non-art by removing nature and culture, resulting in artwork in pure, simple forms and objects placed randomly.