Minimalism

Minimalistic art was most strongly most commonly found in American visual arts in the **late 1960s and early 1970s**. Stella's approach was almost diametrically opposed to abstract expressionalism as he painted true shapes with clean lines and even went to the extreme of using industrial paint to create solid blocks of color and reduce the effect of painter lines.
 * __Characteristics__**
 * 1) clean lines
 * 2) true shapes
 * 3) impersonal attitude
 * 4) simple forms
 * __Frank Stella__**

He was a sculptor, painter and art critic. As a leading minimalist, he created presicly fasbricated , boxlike arrangments , usually set directly on the floor or suspended from a wall in carefully calibrated stacked compositrions.
 * __Donald Judd__**



He was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. Oftentimes he only provided a set of directions for a painting and had others create the art work while he took credit as the artist. He is best known for his wall paintings, some spanning over forty feet in length.
 * __Sol LeWitt__**



He was a sculptor draftsman, printmaker and installation artist. He rose to prominance in the 60's and 70's with minimalist constructions and wall drawing.
 * __Ellsworth Kelly__**