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Defining Neo-Baroque & Minimalism

By Ryan Branchini, September 25, 2008 | Exhibitions, Learn About Art

Neo-Baroque: term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper, around the 17th-18th centuries. It is most frequently used to refer to music or architecture, but can also concern painting or the decorative arts.
•Baroque: The seventeenth-century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade, turbulent composition, and exaggerated emotional expression.

Minimalism: A nonrepresentational style of sculpture and painting, usually severely restricted in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses. The style came to prominence in the late 1960s.

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