What’s on the Minimalism poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
American sculpture and painting of the 1960s using industrial fabrication, repeated units and no internal composition, against Abstract Expressionist gesture and personal handwriting.
- Judd, Andre, Flavin, LeWitt, Martin, Morris.
- Fabricated to a specification, not made by hand.
- One after another: repetition instead of composition.
- Judd rejected the term and wrote specific objects.
- Fried's Art and Objecthood, 1967, attacked it.
- The viewer's body and the room became part of the work.
- Decade — the 1960s
- Method — industrial fabrication
- Andre's Equivalent VIII, 1966: 120 firebricks, bought and arranged rather than carved.
Minimalism in art is not minimalism in design. One is an argument about literal objects; the other is reduction of means.
Questions about the Minimalism poster
- What’s on the Minimalism poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. American sculpture and painting of the 1960s using industrial fabrication, repeated units and no internal composition, against Abstract Expressionist gesture and personal handwriting. Judd, Andre, Flavin, LeWitt, Martin, Morris.; Fabricated to a specification, not made by hand.; One after another: repetition instead of composition.; Judd rejected the term and wrote specific objects.; Fried's Art and Objecthood, 1967, attacked it.; The viewer's body and the room became part of the work.; Decade — the 1960s; Method — industrial fabrication; Andre's Equivalent VIII, 1966: 120 firebricks, bought and arranged rather than carved.. Minimalism in art is not minimalism in design. One is an argument about literal objects; the other is reduction of means.
- Who is the Minimalism poster for?
- Minimalism belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning art history can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Minimalism poster?
- Use it to see why reduction became a serious position rather than a style. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Minimalism belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Minimalism?
- Abstract Expressionism, Arts & Crafts and Bauhaus sit alongside Minimalism in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Abstract ExpressionismArts & CraftsBauhaus
- Is the Minimalism poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Minimalism downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Minimalism poster print at?
- Minimalism is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Minimalism loses nothing.Printing guide
Related posters
Charts that sit alongside Minimalism on the same wall.
Browse every Art & Design poster, or start from the full catalogue.