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Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Richard Serra. It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism and a bridge to Postmodern art practices.
The term has expanded to encompass a movement in music which features repetition and iteration, as in the compositions of Steve Reich, LaMonte Young, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Terry Riley. (See also Postminimalism).
The term "minimalist" is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials. It has also been used to describe the plays of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.
- dog_opus0
I love "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver. Beautiful story.
- btcostello0
little known fact:
to actually BE a minimalist, you can only own two pairs of socks, one black, one white. true story.- I hate white socks! I only wear black ones.dog_opus
- dude, white socks are cool in their own right, like nerds with good taste in music.btcostello
- lol I haven't worn 'em since the eighties.dog_opus
- perhaps you should give them another chance, they may stain easily but man do they look sweet with sandals.btcostello
- LOLdog_opus
- So you wear sneakers with black socks? EeeeewwwwTheBlueOne
- I only wear white socks********
- Well, yeah, white socks are excellent for keeping that fifteen year-old at the mall look going. Rock it.dog_opus
- robs0
http://www.jpgmag.com/issues/12
flip to page 14, 'mnml'
- quite interesting but i cant read the article..********
- yeah, cool magazine thoughrobs
- it is indeed********
- quite interesting but i cant read the article..
- uncle_helv0
I don't like it when people refer to minimalism as a style.
- yea seriously, all those jerks calling something you can describe as well as apply to art and life as a style. F that noise.btcostello
- what is it if not a style?effort
- janne760
i don't like
- KwesiJ0
google uses minimalism to hide the evil
- ********0
A modern minimalist best describes my design aesthetic.
- JG_LB0
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- ukit0
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- ukit0
I don't believe in isms, I just believe in myself.
- your a poet and don't know it.********
- I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was 'The Walrus'.********
- Walrus.' I could be the walrus, but I'd still have to bum rides off of people.********
- your a poet and don't know it.
- JG_LB0
i just can't believe it's not butter
- ********0
Minimalism - I thought Europeans are more to do with it, rather than Americans