Art

The most common form of art in the 1960s to the 1970s was minimal art. It was a form of art that was based on simplicity in the shape and content in the objects of art like sculptures and paintings. The art relied on the absolute physical attributes of the objects rather than their individual expressivity. This form of art allowed the onlookers of the art to experience the art because it represented the objects as they were. This form of art has proven highly influential to other forms of art that developed out of it like land art which borrows from it the idea of use of simple shapes and designs in construction because the artists using lad art and environmental art were opposed to commercial and empheral nature of minimalist art during this period.

Minimalist art was also called ABC art or rejective art because it relied on representing the object of art in its basic features like using the minimum number of textures, colors, lines, and shapes and no effort was made to  add any other object into the art. This influenced other artists to move away from the ephemeral nature of minimalism to the land art and environment art which were more expressive because they incorporated other objects in their art.  These two forms of art involve the use of the natural experiences to enhance the objects of art. Land art relies on landscape while environment relies on relating the objects of art into the natural scene. Minimal art engagement with the  three dimensional space was more personal where the  objects  directly engaged with the space as the three dimensional occupiers while in the  land art and environment arts, the space is occupied by the object and other natural scenery.