Minimalism

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Joshua Becker: Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

Minimalism in the arts began in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Minimalism in music features repetition and iteration. Minimalist compositions are sometimes known as systems music. In the visual arts and Minimalism is a style that uses pared-down design elements.

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Encyclopædia Britannica:Minimal art, also called ABC art, is the culmination of reductionist tendencies in Modern art that first surfaced in the 1913 composition by the Russian painter Kasimir Malevich of a black square on a white ground.
Albert Einstein:Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  • ...la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.
  • Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  • Minimalism wasn't a real idea – it ended before it started.
  • Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
    • William Morris, "The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 – 1881 (1882).
  • Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
  • Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.
    • William of Occam, Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (ed. Lugd., 1495), i, dist. 27, qu. 2, K.
Lao Tzu:In the universe great acts are made up of small deeds.
  • Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.

External links[edit]

  • Encyclopedic article on Minimalism on Wikipedia
  • Media related to Minimalism on Wikimedia Commons
  • The dictionary definition of minimalism on Wiktionary
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