If it's the last part of ur pic (grey) is "Minimalism" Ok.If it's not, sorry Willie but can u explain me ur vision pls ?

I'm with Eric here...I dont understand the photo..not sure what it is.. the texture is good, the colors are good...but I do not see the minimalism here...

"Minimalism is a form of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner. It is an Abstract style of art which came about as a reaction against the subjective elements of Abstract Expressionism."

see: www.artcyclopedia.com/history/minimalism.html

Also

www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Word-II-1954-Posters_i3...

Perhaps with a blurring of the colors it could be minimalist.

Understood Willie - I was going by the definition of this particular topic on this site which is "Create an image where your subject is the strong point of the image, but only occupying a very small portion of the image space."

Sher,

You are correct!

I must say that this Topic's definition of minimalism is unique to this site. I know of no other art history definition or art classification/taxonomy that discusses minimalism as defined in this Topic.

In fact all other examples of minimalism really don't have subjects!

For instance: "Minimalism - A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. It is sometimes called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art." (www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/minimalism.html)

And:

"Minimalism, New York, 1960s, Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. It applies to sculptural works by such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt; to the shaped and striped canvases of Frank Stella; and to paintings by Jo Baer, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman. Minimalist art is generally characterized by precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of color—usually cool hues or commercially mixed colors, or sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references; and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural inflection. As a result of these formal attributes, this art has also been referred to as ABC art, Cool art, Imageless Pop, Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art. Minimalist art shares Pop art’s rejection of the artistic subjectivity and heroic gesture of Abstract Expressionism. In Minimal art what is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewer’s experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole, as in the gestalt aspect of Morris’s sculpture. The repetition of forms in Minimalist sculpture serves to emphasize the subtle differences in the perception of those forms in space and time as the spectator’s viewpoint shifts in time and space." (www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/movement_works_M...

However, your point is well taken. I didn't follow the instructions! I realize I was in error to post images that do not contain subjects in this Topic. I was so excited to have venue for my minimalistic photos I never read this Topic's description. My bad.

After you have a chance to read this I'll delete these images.

Regardless of the definition of minimalism here or elsewhere Willie - it is how YOU interpret it yourself. Dont let me (or anyone else for that matter) ruin your excitement! If YOU feel your photo pertains to this topic, then it does. I might offer that you yourself suggest the topic of "minimal art" or something named as you feel appropriate, and put your own definition there. That way when your topic is voted on, you will have the venus for your photos! Please don't delete your image here. You have started a wonderful conversation and I would hate to see that lost!

beside definitions: I like this picture and the sort of minimalism in it.

I agree with willie 901 about the definition, it kinda stumped me too! However, I'm going to disregard it and use willie's, and also mine, idea of minimalist and comment to that idea. So, in this regard, this image works for me as three bands of colour showing some texture. I like the idea of it.