Essay On Minimalism

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ART MINIMAL / MINIMALISM

The term minimalism in the art was used for the first time in 1965 by Richard Wolheim in an article in the magazine Art Magazine.
The Minimalism transformed in the sixties the conception of the relation of the work of art with the space presupposed by the sculpture of the classic avant-garde. Changes take place in the explanatory spaces, in which now they predominate over naked white walls and big rooms, considering the big size of the objects minibadly.
The minimalism, like architectural tendency, then applied to the interior decoration, differs in the reduction from the forms to the elementary form. It is based on the abstraction and on the structural and functional purism, the geometry it turns in essential element …show more content…

They can determine, in addition to the visual experience of the space, its habitability.
Sometimes the space of the exhibition attracts attention on itself, for its extreme neutrality or for the contrast that it establishes with the works; other times there is clear and looked fund of the pieces, as it happens in the projects of Carl Andre. In other occasions, the space is part of the work and is brought to the perceptive conscience by her.
We can say that any work of art modifies more or less the perception of the surrounding space, but that minibadly they do it deliberately like part of its content. The connection between work and space is propitiated by the size or the laying of the object. Finally, the space is in the Minimalism the place in which the meeting takes place between subject and object and the experience of the work.

Most of the works minimalistas are regular, isolated polyhedrons or in series, of poor or industrial appearance, brilliant or subdued colors, opaque or transparent materials, or even constructed with bricks, neons or plywood; it is a question of simple geometric objects in all kinds of materials that lack the called “truth of the material” and of the neutrality of the artistic means subordinated to the making of the

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