Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through elimina
Tony Smith, Free Ride, 1962, 6'8 × 6'8 × 6'8, Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
Record cover of the Beatles's White Album designed by British conceptual artist Richard Hamilton
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1991, Israel Museum Art Garden, Jerusalem
Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962, 65.5x49cm, dry pigment and synthetic resin on canvas
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usu
Minimalism (visual arts)
…they avoid easy association with well-worn and over-familiar conventions, was a part of their value for Judd. This movement was heavily criticized by modernist formalist art critics and historians. Some critics thought minimal art represented a misunderstanding of the modern dialectic of painting and sculpture as defined…
Vincent van Gogh, Country Road in Provence by Night, May 1890, Kröller-Müller Museum
Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1898–1905
Georges Seurat, Models (Les Poseuses), 1886–88, Barnes Foundation
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing, 1892