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<p>In <a href="/facts/Visual_arts/95RgxP8e">visual arts</a>, <a href="/facts/Minimal_music/5c01jljF">music</a>, and other media, minimalism is an <a href="/facts/Art_movement/StI4qAXb">art movement</a> that began in the <a href="/facts/Post-war_era/jWtelFTY">post-war era</a> in <a href="/facts/Western_art/LNbzu6l1">western art</a>. The movement is interpreted as a reaction to <a href="/facts/Abstract_expressionism/MWmgFNSr">abstract expressionism</a> and <a href="/facts/Modernism/AfPDL45X">modernism</a>; it anticipated contemporary <a href="/facts/Post-minimal/K8JYFo3n">post-minimal</a> art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. Minimalism's key objectives were to strip away conventional characterizations of art by bringing the importance of the object or the experience a viewer has for the object with minimal mediation from the artist. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include <a href="/facts/Donald_Judd/qMrVtVSg">Donald Judd</a>, <a href="/facts/Agnes_Martin/0c4yH69p">Agnes Martin</a>, <a href="/facts/Dan_Flavin/6pJx7AvQ">Dan Flavin</a>, <a href="/facts/Carl_Andre/uDk3bYEU">Carl Andre</a>, <a href="/facts/Robert_Morris_(artist)/aCjTsdxd">Robert Morris</a>, <a href="/facts/Anne_Truitt/yo48MpJS">Anne Truitt</a>, and <a href="/facts/Frank_Stella/e1yrWDPx">Frank Stella</a>. </p><p><a href="/facts/Minimalism_in_music/5c01jljF">Minimalism in music</a> features methods such as repetition and gradual variation, such as the works of <a href="/facts/La_Monte_Young/2e1t3m5X">La Monte Young</a>, <a href="/facts/Terry_Riley/k1IL09Cs">Terry Riley</a>, <a href="/facts/Steve_Reich/D8zYTljV">Steve Reich</a>, <a href="/facts/Philip_Glass/uqwMI2Ty">Philip Glass</a>, <a href="/facts/Julius_Eastman/TUzoX5bj">Julius Eastman</a>, and <a href="/facts/John_Adams_(composer)/rfdhvedN">John Adams</a>. The term is sometimes used to describe the <a href="/facts/Play_(theatre)/8AuSQf2q">plays</a> and <a href="/facts/Novel/3Q8sXXLU">novels</a> of <a href="/facts/Samuel_Beckett/2IMb0k4G">Samuel Beckett</a>, the <a href="/facts/Films/wM3b9Kk3">films</a> of <a href="/facts/Robert_Bresson/pGHf8PsR">Robert Bresson</a>, the stories of <a href="/facts/Raymond_Carver/aE7h8Tz7">Raymond Carver</a>, and the automobile designs of <a href="/facts/Colin_Chapman/A2SSsxBl">Colin Chapman</a>. </p><p>In recent years, minimalism has come to refer to anything or anyone that is spare or stripped to its essentials. </p>