Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Minimalism sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Minimalism (early 1960s – Present), it traces three movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Abstract expressionism, Constructivism and De Stijl; it runs alongside three parallel movements, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Conceptual art, Modular constructivism and Pop art; it fans out to eight movements it went on to influence, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Dansaekhwa, Institutional critique, Land art, Light and Space, Neogeo (art), Postminimalism, Serial art and Site-specific art.
In visual arts, music, and other media, minimalism is an art movement that emerged in the post-World War II era in Western art. It is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism. The movement anticipated various post-minimalist practices in contemporary art that extended or critically reflected on minimalism's original aims. Minimalism emphasized reducing art to its essentials, focusing on the object itself and the viewer's experience with as little mediation from the artist as possible. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. Read more ↗
