MinimalismTo understand the tendency of minimal artists to produce objects and not images, we must define minimalism. Michael Delahunt of Artlex (1) refers to minimalism as “A twentieth-century style of art that emphasizes the idea of ​​reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines, and textures.” But I think this definition doesn't fully reflect what minimal artists have done. They were not interested in 'complex' things like colours, values, lines etc. They preferred objects to images or I would prefer to say 'brush strokes'. Since they believed that “less is more”, even the brush strokes were too much for them. Minimalists were against self-expression. They wanted to use the meaning that a ready-made object already has in itself. This totally suited their purpose of using minimal effort and material for a work of art. Preparing an image would consume too much time and effort on the part of the artists. And what's more, he would have self-expression. They also believed that art could be conceived by the mind before being executed. That is, you need to know how to explain a work of art to those who have not seen it. For example, Mohology-Nagy gave instructions by telephone to a factory for one of his works (2). This can be thought of as an instruction manual for a work of art (I think we can define minimalism as DIY art!). But you can't do this kind of art with a painting. Can you think about it? “put some yellow there, mix the red with the brown and put it on the tree ...