This quote seems adequate to indicating what Minimalism as a
movement was.
What Neo-Miniamlism might be as expressed in this IRTC round
remains to be seen.

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Minimalism
New York, 1960s
Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers
to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means
and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. It applies
to sculptural works by such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin,
Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCracken, Robert Morris,
Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt; to the shaped and
striped canvases of Frank Stella; and to paintings by Jo Baer,
Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin,
and Robert Ryman. Minimalist art is generally characterized by
precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of

sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically
regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to
pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references;
and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural
inflection. As a result of these formal attributes, this art has
also been referred to as ABC art, Cool art, Imageless Pop,
Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art. Minimalist
art shares Pop art's rejection of the artistic subjectivity and
heroic gesture of Abstract Expressionism.In Minimal art what
is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewer's
experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships
among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole,
as in the gestalt aspect of Morris's sculpture. The repetition
of forms in Minimalist sculpture serves to emphasize the subtle
differences in the perception of those forms in space
and time as the spectator's viewpoint shifts in time and space.
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