minimalism

Minimalism, in its broadest scope, is the tendency to reduce to the essential, It emerged in the United States at the beginning of the decade of 1960, continuing the American geometric tradition and reacting against the abusive predominance of the realistic currents and the pop art by museums and collectors.

Minimalism becomes clearer if it is explained that minimalism actually means minimismo, As an art movement, it identifies itself with a development of Western art after the Second World War, begun in 1960. Minimalism is an artistic current that uses minimal and basic elements, such as pure colors, simple geometric shapes, natural tissues, etc.

The inheritance of minimalism becomes a reduction in the activity of the
artist and an increase in the activity of the spectator, to whom they
intend to provoke an intellectual stimulus, and it is another of the
characteristics of this tendency to the importance of the theoretical
aspects, highlighted a order to turn art into a knowledge tool.