I guess Minimalism, to me, is reducing an object to its most simple form, or its essence, if you will.
Such art is less accessible to the everyman and everywoman because it's not immediately obvious what it's meant to mean. Unless you subscribe to relativism (where the meaning in something is more or less whatever the reader/viewer/audience wishes to derive), which I don't, then it takes a little knowledge of the artwork, artist, context or,
something - in order to make sense of the artwork. I guess it's not always immediately profound at first contact.
Nevertheless, those first pictures are cool - it would be cool to have one in the lobby of my house or something (and depending whether it's coated or stainless or not, if I could stand the permanent smell of rusting steel). Imposing and forceful, but, especially those wavy ones, peaceful, as you say.
Btw, I think I've got a print of "Composition" by Mondrian lying around somewhere, literally - um, I thought it was a 'junk' painting of miscellaneous provenance. Sigh. Heh. I suppose I am mistaken
