Minimal art

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Richard Serra. It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism and a bridge to Postmodern art practices.
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Noun
1. an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
(synonym) minimalism, reductivism
(hypernym) artistic movement, art movement

1960 - 1965 USA - variation of abstract expressionism - reducing the the elements to their primary structure - compare formalism 

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