About
Out with the excesses. Generally single pieces, these tattoos are deconstructed into the most basic components.
Many minimalist tattoos hide in unusual places in the human body, such as the inner lip, between fingers and inside of the ears.
Origin
This tattoo style derives from the minimalism art movement and follows the concept focusing on what is essential and eliminating everything that is not. Its appeal came from the desire to engrave faster, smaller and cheaper tattoos, as per opposition to other styles like the Japanese, that can be very expensive and take a long time to be completed.
Design
More often than not, only black ink will be present and fine lines will make up most of the image. Empty space is used to fill the main theme which allows details and secondary thematics to be included in the whole, without having them specifically drawn.
For a work to be minimalist, it’s not the size of the tattoo that matters but following the philosophy of simplification.
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