In Germany, the artist Blinky Palermo is known to many people in connection with minimalist paintings. Some of these artists would continue to further realize themselves in Conceptual Art, make Performance Art their medium, or make contributions to feminist art. Not all of them were exclusively engaged in Minimal Art during their career. The most famous names of the Primary Structures exhibition were Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Judy Chicago, Tony Smith, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, and Anne Truitt. Such a technique is present in a highly stylized way, for example, in the mixed-media drawings of the great fashion designer Christian Lacroix, and in the pop-art inspired portraits of Gazi Sanzoy. The object itself is typically cropped out, or downplayed, in order to give prime of place to both the surrounding subject matter and a residual sillhouette. In photography, minimalist art has often been characterized by the use of negative space - a technique in the composition of a photographic artwork by which "empty" space, or the marginal space surrounding an object of contemplation, actually comes to the foreground. This undogmatic understanding of art was revolutionary, and influenced by a central premise of conceptual art: ideas are more important than artistic persona or virtuosity in technique. It is an art for the naive and the untutored: previous knowledge is not necessary to contemplate or understand Minimal Art. By contrast, this impulse is competely evacuated from minimal art. Expressionism is defined by its expressing of emotional states. The tendency of the latter away from discernable forms and towards simplicity of representation (even if not immediately evident to the observer) is a featured shared by both minimal and abstract art, both as general tendencies and historical movements. From an aesthetic point of view, minimal art shares much with abstract art. Minimal Art understood itself as a counter-movement to the highly emotional abstract expressionism, and to the socially critical Pop Art.
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