A form of musical composition pioneered by Glass, in which the same musical figure is repeated many times before changing to another figure only very slightly different. This figure is in turn repeated many times and so on ad infinitum.
A twentieth century art movement and style where the main idea is to reduce images to the lowest degree of simplicity in color and form. The Minimalist movement was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism.
nonrepresentational style of sculpture and painting, usually severely restricted in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses. The style came to prominence in the late 1960s.
A non-representational style of sculpture and painting restrictive in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses.
Late 20th-century music by composers such as Philip Glass, based on a small number of ideas repeated many times.
Often 3D., large scale and geometric with the impression of being mass produced. Clean lines without specific detail work or indications of the personality of the artist.
When the composer ran out of ideas and just kept repeating the same thing.
a kind of navel-contemplating music
an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
A fairy tale that actually happened between East and West, visual arts and music, popular and serious forms.
A predominantly sculptural American trend of the 1960's whose work consists of a severe reduction of form, oftentimes to single, homogenous units.
A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions.
music made up of the reiteration of one theme over an extended period of time
A style of painting and sculpture in the mid 20th century in which the art elements are rendered with a minimum of lines, shapes, and sometimes color. The works may look and feel sparse, spare, restricted or empty.
Spare in appearance and restrained in mood, minimalist art emerged in the 1960s. The term can refer to the extreme simplicity of a work of art or to the suppression of detail and gesture in favor of a rational, at times machine-made quality.
A style of art in which the least possible amount of form shapes, colors, or lines are used to reduce the concept or idea to its simplest form (geometric shapes, progressions).
a style of art that reduces a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines, and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. Minimalist art is considered non-objective.
A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colours, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience.
A writing style, exemplified in the works of Raymond Carver, that is characterized by spareness and simplicity.
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 and core self expression. In other fields of art it has been used to describe the plays of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the editing and stories of Gordon Lish and the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.