In a direct reaction against the intuitive, spontaneous, intense expressivity and complexity of works of the abstract expressionists, artists like Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Frank Stella, and Sol LeWitt created an art pared down to its bare bones. In 1965, the art critic Richard Wollheim coined the term “minimal art” to describe art that reduced its materials and forms to fundamentals, art that was no longer intended to express the feelings or state of mind of the artist, an impersonal art that no longer attempted to be a window onto another world but referred only to itself. “No to transcendence and spiritual values, heroic scale, anguished decisions, historicizing narrative, valuable artifact, interesting visual experience.” It shouldn’t be concealed as part of a fairly different whole.” “A shape, a volume, a color, a surface is something itself. A look inside the greats of the minimalism arts movement
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