MINIMALISM ARTMinimal Art, a group of artists who aspire to a more geometrically strict style where the imposition of order is not inflexible but rather moderate. Different forms are reduced to minimum conditions of order and complexity from the morphological point of view. . Both the material properties such as surface and color remain constant in order not to divert attention from the work as a whole. Minimalist Painting is the application of minimalism to the pictorial field. This is an abstract type of painting that originated in the United States, in New York, in the early 1960s, and developed during the 1970s. It is considered to be a reaction against the pictorial forms of abstract expressionism. As influence of minimalism in painting is quoted Ad Reinhardt and his Black Paintings, made at the end of his life. It also cited as precedent painting trend of color fields within the abstract expressionism. These reductive works were in stark contrast to the minimum paintings but full power of a Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline and tended more towards painting of the color fields. It has also appreciated the influence of Art Constructivism. The minimalist painters also received influences composer John Cage, the poet William Carlos Williams, and architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Explicitly they stated that his art was not an expression of themselves, in complete opposition to the abstract expressionists of the preceding decade. Soon they created a minimalist style, whose features were: rectangular and cubic forms, which were not a metaphor for anything; equal parts of the picture, repetition, neutral surfaces, industrial materials, all leading to an immediate visual impact. Usually they make large canvases in which prevails above all color. The first painter who relates specifically Minimalism was Frank Stella, whose striped paintings were featured in the exhibition of 1959, 16 Americans, organized at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The width of the stripes in the paintings of Stellas were determined by the dimensions of the wood used to build the frame that held the canvas. In the exhibition catalog, Carl Andre said that art excludes the unnecessary, Frank Stella has understood necessary to paint stripes. There is nothing else in this painting. Although from this exhibition, Stella received immediate attention, artists like Ralph Humphrey and Robert Ryman had begun to explore monochrome formats to late 1950. Later in 1980, there was a renewal of minimalist painting with trends Neo- Neo-geo and minimal.
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