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minimal art

 
–noun
a chiefly American style in painting and sculpture that developed in the 1960s largely in reaction against abstract expressionism, shunning illusion, decorativeness, and emotional subjectivity in favor of impersonality, simplification of form, and the use of often massive, industrially produced materials for sculpture, and extended its influence to architecture, design, dance, theater, and music.
Also, Minimal Art.
Also called ABC art, minimalism, rejective art.

Origin:
1965
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min·i·mal·ism   (mĭn'ə-mə-lĭz'əm)   
n.  

  1. A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, rejective art.

  2. Use of the fewest and barest essentials or elements, as in the arts, literature, or design.

  3. Music A school or mode of contemporary music marked by extreme simplification of rhythms, patterns, and harmonies, prolonged chordal or melodic repetitions, and often a trancelike effect.

rejective art  
n.  See minimalism.
re·jec'tiv·ist adj.
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