Editing Minimalism (section)

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| caption = Top: ''Untitled'', by [[Donald Judd]], concrete sculpture, 1991, [[Israel Museum]]<br />Centre: the {{interlanguage link|Zollverein School of Management and Design|de|SANAA-Gebäude}} [[Essen]], Germany, 2005–2006, by [[SANAA]]<br />Bottom: [[Kazimir Malevich]], ''[[Black Square]]'', 1915, oil on canvas, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, [[Tretyakov Gallery]], Moscow
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In [[visual arts]], [[Minimal music|music]], and other media, '''minimalism''' is an [[art movement]] that began in the [[post-war era]] in Western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to [[abstract expressionism]] and [[modernism]]; it anticipated contemporary [[post-minimal]] art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties |url=http://caareviews.org/reviews/496 |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties}}</ref> Minimalism's key objectives were to strip away conventional characterizations of art by bringing the importance of the object or the experience a viewer has for the object with minimal mediation from the artist.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2015-05-20 |title=Universal principles of art: 100 key concepts for understanding, analyzing, and practicing art |url=https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3399985&ppg=114 |journal=Beverly, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers |volume=52 |issue=10 |pages=112 |doi=10.5860/choice.189714 |doi-broken-date=1 February 2025 |issn=0009-4978}}</ref> Prominent artists associated with minimalism include [[Donald Judd]], [[Agnes Martin]], [[Dan Flavin]], [[Carl Andre]], [[Robert Morris (artist)|Robert Morris]], [[Anne Truitt]], and [[Frank Stella]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minimalism Movement Overview |url=https://www.theartstory.org/movement/minimalism/ |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=The Art Story}}</ref>

[[Minimalism in music]] often features repetition and gradual variation, such as the works of [[La Monte Young]], [[Terry Riley]], [[Steve Reich]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Julius Eastman]], and [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]. The term has also been used to describe the [[Play (theatre)|plays]] and [[novel]]s of [[Samuel Beckett]], the [[films]] of [[Robert Bresson]], the stories of [[Raymond Carver]], and the automobile designs of [[Colin Chapman]].

In recent years, minimalism has come to refer to anything or anyone that is spare or stripped to its essentials.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Szalai |first=Jennifer |date=2020-01-21 |title='The Longing for Less' Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/books/review-longing-for-less-minimalism-kyle-chayka.html |access-date=2024-07-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>