Postminimalist visual art uses
minimalism either as a
conceptual art aesthetic or a
generative art practice. Like
Fluxus, postminimalism is more of an artistic tendency than a particular style, but in general, postminimalist artworks often use everyday objects, simple materials, and sometimes take on a pure
formalist aesthetic or
post-conceptual approaches. However, since postminimalism includes such a diverse and disparate group of artists, it is impossible to enumerate all the continuities and similarities between them. But as two opposing examples, take the work of
Eva Hesse and her use of
modern art grids and
minimalist seriality that were usually hand-made, introducing a human element into minimalism in contrast to the machine fabrication more typical of the
minimalism of someone like
Carl Andre. American sculptor
Christopher Wilmarth falls within the post-Minimalist movement alongside
Eva Hesse and
Bruce Nauman. Wilmarth's work eschewed the perfect machine-made aesthetic of the minimalists, yet also resisted the process-oriented excess of much 1970s postminimalist sculpture.
Richard Serra was another prominent postminimalist though his large metal sculptures are completely machine made. ==Music==