Neo-minimalism is an amorphous art movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Other terms include: Neo-Conceptualism, Neo-Futurism, Neo-Op, Neo-pop, New Abstraction, Poptometry, Post-Abstractionism, and Smart Art.
[1] As a product of the modernist movement of the 1960s, it was influenced by the Bauhaus style of art which rejected lavish designs for a more down-to-earth approach.
"[3] Contemporary artists who have been linked to the term, or who have been included in shows employing it, include Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe, Lorenzo Belenguer, Ashley Bickerton, David Burdeny, Paul Kuhn, Pierluigi Manciniart, DoDoU, Eve Leader, Peter Schuyff, Christopher Willard and Tim Zuck.
[5] In architecture, indeed, neo-minimalism has been identified as a part of "the new orthodoxy...."[6] As Finnish author Juhani Pallasmaa stated: "After the bacchanal of post-modernism, the time has again come for neo-minimalism, neo-ascetism, neo-denial and sublime poverty.