MINIMAL ART

Minimalism is a movement that everything inessential in the work of art, has been removed.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 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture.Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said  "Less is more" to describe his aesthetic tactic of arranging the necessary components of a building to create an impression of extreme simplicity. Minimalist architecture became popular in 1980s around New York and London. It is achieved by using white elements, cold lighting, large space with minimum objects and furniture.

Black Square-Kazimir Malevich
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe