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The main traits of minimal art are that it’s inexpressive, impersonal and cold. Minimalist painters and sculptors want to create an art that isn’t pretending to be something else, or isn’t imitating anything. They want to distance themselves from all aspects of real life. To do this, they eliminate all elements they believe are personal or inessential, in doing so, making space for an art with no illusions and focused on elementary geometric forms. Minimal painting shouldn’t refer to anything but itself. Sculptors, in the same way, work with geometric forms like cubes, parallelepipeds or pyramids made with industrial materials like wood, metal or Plexiglas to make their art as impersonal and precise as possible. All these minimal elements are installed on the wall or directly onto the floor so as to create a relationship between the space and these cumbersome physical presences. But minimalism isn’t just an art movement; it’s a cultural tendency also evident in literature and poetry.
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The main traits of minimal art are that it’s inexpressive, impersonal and cold. Minimalist painters and sculptors want to create an art that isn’t pretending to be something else, or isn’t imitating anything. They want to distance themselves from all aspects of real life. To do this, they eliminate all elements they believe are personal or inessential, in doing so, making space for an art with no illusions and focused on elementary geometric forms. Minimal painting shouldn’t refer to anything but itself. Sculptors, in the same way, work with geometric forms like cubes, parallelepipeds or pyramids made with industrial materials like wood, metal or Plexiglas to make their art as impersonal and precise as possible. All these minimal elements are installed on the wall or directly onto the floor so as to create a relationship between the space and these cumbersome physical presences. But minimalism isn’t just an art movement; it’s a cultural tendency also evident in literature and poetry.
