![]() A diverse group of artists were at one point or another during their careers classified as minimalists. This new approach to art was eventually called Minimal Art. These artists explored the reductive tradition with highly experimental three-dimensional work. Artists in the 1960s and 1970s who explored reductive notions found a new way to embody their ideas in visual form. ![]() Painterly Abstraction brought the reductive process possibilities of pure painting to a logical end. The summaries will lead you to biographies and more information about the artists for you to study. Instead of creating, say, an image of something we recognize, like a figure or a landscape, they focused on ideas. Like minimalism, Conceptual art was a shift of focus away from representational images and to an idea as the basis for a work. Minimal Music was similar in that an entire musical work could be composed from a very simple tune of, say, four notes. That means that one of Donald Judd’s cube-shaped sculptures was reduced to the simple form of a cube, and nothing more. Minimalism in art and music was an effort to create a form with a minimum of material and process. In this chapter we will discuss other ways artists explored the reduction of visual form that caused viewers to reflect on themselves. In our discussion of Abstract Expressionism, artists were trying to reduce art to its essence. ![]()
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