A Minimalist wall art for your decoration
If you want to give a modern look to your decor, the Minimalist wall art and more globally the minimalist decoration are essential elements. Decorate your living room or your Scandinavian or contemporary style interior with a minimalist painting from our collection. You are sure to find the ideal painting on Aesthetic Wall Art.
What is minimalism?
Minimalism is characterized by a strong level of abstraction and reductionism. Simple forms and often monochromatic coloring reduce the minimalist artwork to its basic elements. Minimalism denotes the artist’s withdrawal. Minimalism is still a sought after aesthetic and is expressed in many other areas of design and art. Check out our collection of minimalist and minimalist artworks and learn more about the origin of this beautiful art movement!
Characteristics of minimalist art and the minimalist painting
Even in art, minimalism is a catch-all, referring to a historical movement, a collection of design and decorating preferences, and an approach to the use of materials. Whether used to refer to home furnishings or, more broadly, as a simple living philosophy, minimalism promises to simplify and slow down life. But did you know that the terms “Minimalism” and “Minimal Art” date back to a single exhibition in 1966? Curator Kynaston McShine organized the exhibition Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors at the Jewish Musuem in New York. The exhibition featured mainly sculptures that were distinguished by their reduced formal language. But already in the 1950s, Frank Stella was creating paintings with his famous Black Paintings series. The participating artists did not describe themselves as minimalists. This attribution can be traced back to the art critics of the time. The outstanding characteristics that united the works were as follows:
Simple, strong basic geometric forms in series or repetition.
Industrially prefabricated materials such as bricks, fluorescent tubes or Plexiglas.
Artists often just designed their work and did not execute it themselves.
Integration into the context of the localities: so-called site specificity.
No interpretation or reading given. Only through the viewer’s encounter with the art does a strong personal meaning emerge.
In a direction similar to that taken by conceptual art, the authorship of the artwork has become less relevant.
Neither artistic virtuosity, nor biography, nor illusionist persuasion tactics, nor emotions or metaphors contribute to the decoding of the works.
Minimal art is understood as a counter-movement to the highly emotional abstract expressionism and the socially critical pop art. From an aesthetic point of view, minimal art shares much with abstract art. The latter’s tendency to move away from discernible forms and to seek simplicity of representation (even if not immediately obvious to the viewer) is a characteristic shared by both minimal and abstract art, both as general trends and historical movements. Expressionism is defined by the expression of emotional states. On the other hand, this impulse is totally evacuated from minimal art. It is an art for the naive and the ignorant: no prior knowledge is necessary to contemplate or understand a Minimalist wall art. This non-dogmatic view of art was revolutionary and influenced by a central premise of conceptual art: ideas are more important than artistic personality or technical virtuosity.
