Minimalism is an art about faith in the primary, primitive shapes and colors that are the building blocks of our universe. Sol LeWitt, one of minimalism's masters, has died. Here is the NYT obit:
He reduced art to a few of the most basic shapes (quadrilaterals, spheres, triangles), colors (red, yellow, blue, black) and types of lines, and organized them by guidelines he felt in the end free to bend. Much of what he devised came down to specific ideas or instructions: a thought you were meant to contemplate, or plans for drawings or actions that could be carried out by you, or not.
* The piece pictured above is Four-Sided Pyramid, first installed in 1997 at the National Gallery in Washington.