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Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.
Minimalism in visual art, generally referred to as "minimal art", literalist art, [2] and ABC Art [3] emerged in New York in the early 1960s. [4] Initially minimal art appeared in New York in the 60s as new and older artists moved toward geometric abstraction; exploring via painting in the cases of Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Al Held ...
Meyer Schapiro and Leo Steinberg along with Greenberg and Rosenberg were important art historians of the post-war era who voiced support for abstract expressionism. During the early-to-mid-sixties younger art critics Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, and Robert Hughes added considerable insights into the critical dialectic that continues to grow ...
Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
Minimalism – 1960 – Hard-edge painting – early 1960s, United States; Fluxus – early 1960s – late-1970s; Happening – early 1960 – Video art – early 1960 – Psychedelic art – early 1960s – Conceptual art – 1960s – Graffiti – 1960s – Junk art – 1960s – Performance art – 1960s – Op Art – 1964 – Post ...
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Harlem Renaissance painter Beauford Delaney’s early abstract works predate the Abstract Expressionism movement. [67] [68] His 1941 abstract oil, "The Burning Bush", was created before World War II, [69] and his 1946 abstract painting, “Greene Street”, was inspired by his Greenwich Village neighborhood. [67] [70]
It derives from the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism and a bridge to Post minimal art practices. By the early 1960s, minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in the geometric abstraction of Kazimir Malevich, [199] the Bauhaus and Piet Mondrian) that ...