 Associated with painters such as Frank Stella, minimalism in painting, as opposed to other areas, is a modernist movement.Depending on the context, minimalism might be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement.Seen from the perspective of writers who sometimes classify it as a postmodern movement, early minimalism began and succeeded as a modernist movement to yield advanced works, but which partially abandoned this project when a few artists changed direction in favor of the anti-form movement.