minimalist sculpture
Stripped-down three-dimensional art
Minimalist sculpture is three-dimensional art stripped to essential geometric forms—cubes, slabs, beams—typically in industrial materials like steel, aluminum, or plexiglass.
The movement emerged in 1960s America as a reaction against expressionism, favoring impersonal fabrication over the artist's hand.
Works by Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Dan Flavin exemplify the style: The minimalist sculpture occupied the gallery floor—just twelve identical steel boxes in a grid.
- negative spaceEmpty area around forms
- empty spaceArea devoid of contents
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- concreteSolid building mixture
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
less is more · clean lines · industrial design · white cube · plexiglass · simplicity · formalism · modularity · conceptual art · post-war art · purity · modernism · repetition · welding · aluminum · raw materials · land art · casting
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Delicate twisted-wire ornamentation
minimalist sculpturebricolage
Construction from available materials
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