Youth Arts Action Central - Art for Social Change through the Decades: Week 6

Program Description:

2010s Renewed Popularity of Minimalism

Today’s session will be an exploration in the form of minimalist art, while it has been present for several decades there was a renewed popularity in the 2010s. Minimalism focuses on simplicity, utilizing clean lines, geometric shapes and a limited color palette. This art style often conveys a sense of tranquility, emphasizing the beauty of simplicity and the reduction of elements to their essential form. Youth will take an image they resonate with and scale it down to its most basic form of creation on 5x7 mixed media paper with the use of ink, marker and colored pencils, using simple shapes and lines that invoke the essence of the image.