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Note createdFeb 13, 2026

A movement that emerged in New York City in the early 1960s, stripping art down to its essential geometric forms, industrial materials, and literal presence, removing all personal expression and narrative. Key figures include Donald Judd, Dan Flavin—whose monument 1 for V. Tatlin distills sculpture to pure fluorescent light—Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella. It reacted against the emotional subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism, insisting that “what you see is what you see.”