In the 1960s, the Minimal Art movement developed as a purely formalist model that both complemented and, in a sense, dismantled modernism. In subsequent years, it was heavily criticised -particularly in an attempt to present Neo-Expressionism as inclusive and pioneering- and characterised as a reductive and outdated approach. Today, however, Minimal Art is regarded as an experimental, theoretical and provocative approach that challenges the transcendence of art, owing to the dialectical links it establishes with both late-modern and avant-garde art.