The artists of Minimalism are trying to represent on their work as "of the time" are described below.
Explanation:
1.Elementary shapes, series, industrial materials and methods of production are hallmarks of Minimal Art, which developed in the 1960s as an alternative to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art
2.Simple metal plates laid out in square, walkable surfaces on the ground by Carl Andre; an industrially produced neon light attached at a diagonal on the wall by Dan Flavin; boxes made of metal and Plexiglas arranged in rows by Donald Judd; grid structures made of steel or aluminum, continually recombined in new variations by Sol Sol LeWitt; L-shaped plywood hooks presented in various situations by Robert Morris: these are descriptions of object-like works created by major representatives of Minimal Art, made in the early 1960s in North America, mainly in studios New York and Los Angeles.
3.The artists were rebelling against the emotional gestures of Abstract Expressionism and the trivial iconography of Pop Art. Characteristic factors are the use of elementary, often geometrical shapes; the non-discriminating arrangement of three-dimensional objects into series, and the application of industrially produced materials and production methods. With this they radically altered the concept of the work of art.
4.The works of Minimal Art, which are considered exclusively part of the sculptural field, not only avoid any sort of individual artist’s signature, but also any kind of illusionary, metaphorical, or symbolic interpretation. The work is, what it is. Form and content are one. As Frank Stella said: “What you see is what you see.”
5.The term Minimal Art was coined in 1965 by the English philosopher Richard Wollheim in an essay of the same name, published in Arts Magazine. “Recently there has been much written about Minimal Art, but I have not discovered anyone who admits to doing this kind of thing.” In the meantime the first survey exhibition of Minimalist works, Primary Structures, opened to the public at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1966.
6.Minimal Art is regarded as the epitome of a genuine American art movement and is usually associated with mostly with the few artists mentioned above, who also attracted attention in Germany in the second half of the 1960s.And Minimal Art has also reappeared in our everyday culture: “Minimalism lives” say Neo-Minimalists who find the consumer- and experience-oriented lifestyle excessive, and who are once again rendering homage to the saying “less is more.”
