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47-602: It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by four flat wooden slabs (originally in Elm, now in pine wood) that are merged in a Z-shape using dovetailed and bolted or screwed joints . It was designed for Rietveld's Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht and is now produced under license In Cherry or Ash by the Italian manufacturer Cassina S.p.A. , and others as unlicensed knock-offs. The Italian brand has tapped One Block Down for

94-498: A major reference: De Stijl expanded the ideas of expression by meticulously organizing basic elements such as lines and planes. With regard to home design, more attractive "minimalistic" designs are not truly minimalistic because they are larger, and use more expensive building materials and finishes. There are observers who describe the emergence of minimalism as a response to the brashness and chaos of urban life. In Japan, for example, minimalist architecture began to gain traction in

141-713: A more general sense, minimalism as a visual strategy can be found in the geometric abstractions of painters associated with the Bauhaus movement, in the works of Kazimir Malevich , Piet Mondrian and other artists associated with the De Stijl movement, the Russian Constructivist movement, and in the work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși . Minimalism as a formal strategy has been deployed in

188-503: A new collaboration with a limited-edition run of 30 pieces seeing the wooden chair covered in metal. This article about furniture or furnishing is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Minimalism In visual arts , music and other media, minimalism in the modern sense was an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in

235-459: A pared-down prose narrative, is a contemporary example of minimalist playwrighting. In his novel The Easy Chain , Evan Dara includes a 60-page section written in the style of musical minimalism, in particular inspired by composer Steve Reich . Intending to represent the psychological state (agitation) of the novel's main character, the section's successive lines of text are built on repetitive and developing phrases. The term "minimal music"

282-400: A particular genre of Japanese Minimalism, Sejimas delicate, intelligent designs may use white color, thin construction sections and transparent elements to create the phenomenal building type often associated with minimalism. Works include New Museum (2010) New York City, Small House (2000) Tokyo, House surrounded By Plum Trees (2003) Tokyo. In Vitra Conference Pavilion, Weil am Rhein, 1993,

329-566: A simple story with straightforward camera usage and minimal use of score. Paul Schrader named their kind of cinema: "transcendental cinema". In the present, a commitment to minimalist filmmaking can be seen in film movements such as Dogme 95 , mumblecore , and the Romanian New Wave . Abbas Kiarostami , Elia Suleiman , and Kelly Reichardt are also considered minimalist filmmakers. The Minimalists – Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus, and Matt D'Avella – directed and produced

376-520: A specific movement of artists that emerged in New York in the early 1960s in response to abstract expressionism . Examples of artists working in painting that are associated with Minimalism include Nassos Daphnis , Frank Stella , Kenneth Noland , Al Held , Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Ryman and others; those working in sculpture include Donald Judd , Dan Flavin , David Smith , Anthony Caro and more. Minimalism in painting can be characterized by

423-480: A vibrant period in the New York art world; it showcased a diverse group of artists who were giving shape to styles that would soon be labeled Color Field painting , Pop Art and Minimalism . Artists receiving important first shows at the Green Gallery during its five-year run included: Mark di Suvero , Lucas Samaras , James Rosenquist , Claes Oldenburg (first uptown show), George Segal (first show as

470-716: Is also sometimes associated with the briefest of poetic genres, haiku , which originated in Japan, but has been domesticated in English literature by poets such as Nick Virgilio , Raymond Roseliep , and George Swede . The Irish writer Samuel Beckett is well known for his minimalist plays and prose, as is the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse . Dimitris Lyacos 's With the People from the Bridge , combining elliptical monologues with

517-472: Is invisible and aids the search for the essence of those invisible qualities—such as natural light, sky, earth, and air. In addition, they "open a dialogue" with the surrounding environment to decide the most essential materials for the construction and create relationships between buildings and sites. In minimalist architecture, design elements strive to convey the message of simplicity. The basic geometric forms, elements without decoration, simple materials and

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564-448: Is irrelevant, and its status as a work of art remains even when unseen. The Donald Judd 's pieces (see the photo on the right), on the other hand, are just objects sitting in the desert sun waiting for a visitor to discover them and accept them as art. The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture , wherein the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist architectural designers focus on

611-428: Is shaped by the minimal geometric forms to avoid decoration that is not essential. Literary minimalism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Minimalist writers eschew adverbs and prefer allowing context to dictate meaning. Readers are expected to take an active role in creating the story, to "choose sides" based on oblique hints and innuendo, rather than react to directions from

658-639: The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. However, the roots of minimal music are older. In France, Yves Klein allegedly conceived his Monotone Symphony (formally The Monotone-Silence Symphony ) between 1947 or 1949 (but premiered only in 1960), a work that consisted of a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence. In film, minimalism usually is associated with filmmakers such as Robert Bresson , Chantal Akerman , Carl Theodor Dreyer , and Yasujirō Ozu . Their films typically tell

705-720: The New York School during the 1940s and 1950s. Dissatisfied with the intuitive and spontaneous qualities of Action Painting , and Abstract Expressionism more broadly, Minimalism as an art movement asserted that a work of art should not refer to anything other than itself and should omit any extra-visual association. Donald Judd's work was showcased in 1964 at Green Gallery in Manhattan, as were Flavin's first fluorescent light works, while other leading Manhattan galleries like Leo Castelli Gallery and Pace Gallery also began to showcase artists focused on minimalist ideas. In

752-886: The metafiction trend of the 1960s and early 1970s ( John Barth , Robert Coover , and William H. Gass ). These writers were also sparse with prose and kept a psychological distance from their subject matter. Minimalist writers, or those who are identified with minimalism during certain periods of their writing careers, include the following: Raymond Carver , Ann Beattie , Bret Easton Ellis , Charles Bukowski , K. J. Stevens , Amy Hempel , Bobbie Ann Mason , Tobias Wolff , Grace Paley , Sandra Cisneros , Mary Robison , Frederick Barthelme , Richard Ford , Patrick Holland , Cormac McCarthy , David Leavitt and Alicia Erian . American poets such as William Carlos Williams , early Ezra Pound , Robert Creeley , Robert Grenier , and Aram Saroyan are sometimes identified with their minimalist style. The term "minimalism"

799-493: The 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd , Agnes Martin , Dan Flavin , Carl Andre , Robert Morris , Anne Truitt and Frank Stella . The movement is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and modernism ; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. Minimalism in music often features repetition and gradual variation, such as

846-462: The 1980s when its cities experienced rapid expansion and booming population. The design was considered an antidote to the "overpowering presence of traffic, advertising, jumbled building scales, and imposing roadways." The chaotic environment was not only driven by urbanization, industrialization, and technology but also the Japanese experience of constantly having to demolish structures on account of

893-469: The Green Gallery, Bellamy was co-director of the Hansa Gallery , an artists' cooperative gallery in New York's 10th Street gallery district that had moved uptown. He brought his deep connections with downtown artists with him to his new enterprise, which joined a small number of uptown galleries focused on new American art. These included Leo Castelli (founded only a few years before Green) and

940-695: The Japanese traditional spirit and his own perception of nature in his works. His design concepts are materials, pure geometry and nature. He normally uses concrete or natural wood and basic structural form to achieve austerity and rays of light in space. He also sets up dialogue between the site and nature to create relationship and order with the buildings. Ando's works and the translation of Japanese aesthetic principles are highly influential on Japanese architecture. Another Japanese minimalist architect, Kazuyo Sejima , works on her own and in conjunction with Ryue Nishizawa , as SANAA , producing iconic Japanese Minimalist buildings. Credited with creating and influencing

987-487: The absence of unnecessary features, treasures a life in quietness and aims to reveal the innate character of materials. For example, the Japanese floral art of ikebana has the central principle of letting the flower express itself. People cut off the branches, leaves and blossoms from the plants and only retain the essential part of the plant. This conveys the idea of essential quality and innate character in nature. The Japanese minimalist architect Tadao Ando conveys

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1034-426: The concepts are to bring together the relationships between building, human movement, site and nature . Which as one main point of minimalism ideology that establish dialogue between the building and site. The building uses the simple forms of circle and rectangle to contrast the filled and void space of the interior and nature. In the foyer, there is a large landscape window that looks out to the exterior. This achieves

1081-580: The connection between two perfect planes, elegant lighting, and the void spaces left by the removal of three-dimensional shapes in an architectural design. Minimalist architecture became popular in the late 1980s in London and New York, whereby architects and fashion designers worked together in the boutiques to achieve simplicity, using white elements, cold lighting, and large spaces with minimal furniture and few decorative elements. Minimalistic design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture . The works of De Stijl artists are

1128-419: The design. The considerations for 'essences' are light, form, detail of material, space, place, and human condition. Minimalist architects not only consider the physical qualities of the building. They consider the spiritual dimension and the invisible, by listening to the figure and paying attention to details, people, space, nature, and materials, believing this reveals the abstract quality of something that

1175-487: The destruction wrought by World War II and the earthquakes, including the calamities it entails such as fire. The minimalist design philosophy did not arrive in Japan by way of another country, as it was already part of the Japanese culture rooted on the Zen philosophy. There are those who specifically attribute the design movement to Japan's spirituality and view of nature. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) adopted

1222-436: The engineer's goal of "Doing more with less", but his concerns were oriented toward technology and engineering rather than aesthetics. The concept of minimalist architecture is to strip everything down to its essential quality and achieve simplicity. The idea is not completely without ornamentation, but that all parts, details, and joinery are considered as reduced to a stage where no one can remove anything further to improve

1269-436: The essentiality from the considered setting of a few stones and a huge empty space. The Japanese aesthetic principle of Ma refers to empty or open space. It removes all the unnecessary internal walls and opens up the space. The emptiness of spatial arrangement reduces everything down to the most essential quality. The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi values the quality of simple and plain objects. It appreciates

1316-404: The film Minimalism: A Documentary , which showcased the idea of minimal living in the modern world. Breaking from the complex, hearty dishes established as orthodox haute cuisine , nouvelle cuisine was a culinary movement that consciously drew from minimalism and conceptualism . It emphasized more basic flavors, careful presentation , and a less involved preparation process. The movement

1363-697: The graphics are "fit for the Museum of Modern Art or the Getty ." Green Gallery The Green Gallery was an art gallery that operated between 1960 and 1965 at 15 West 57th Street in Manhattan , New York City. The gallery's director was Richard Bellamy , and its financial backer was the art collector Robert Scull . Green Gallery is noted for giving early visibility to a number of artists who soon rose to prominence, such as Yayoi Kusama , Mark di Suvero , Donald Judd , and George Segal . Prior to starting

1410-453: The interpretation of the stripes without us even thinking about it". Warming stripe graphics resemble color field paintings in stripping out all distractions, such as actual data, and using only color to convey meaning. Color field pioneer artist Barnett Newman said he was "creating images whose reality is self-evident", an ethos that Hawkins is said to have applied to the problem of climate change and leading one commentator to remark that

1457-479: The investment of time. He initially approached Ivan Karp to run the gallery, and Karp referred him to Bellamy. Scull was a silent backer of the business, in order not to interfere with his relationships with other galleries. While the Green Gallery was not a commercial success, it was distinguished by Bellamy's wide-ranging taste and his presentation of artists working in directions that soon became recognized as vital trends. The gallery's short history spanned

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1504-453: The minimalist architecture in the 19th century. Zen concepts of simplicity transmit the ideas of freedom and essence of living. Simplicity is not only aesthetic value, it has a moral perception that looks into the nature of truth and reveals the inner qualities and essence of materials and objects. For example, the sand garden in Ryōan-ji temple demonstrates the concepts of simplicity and

1551-429: The minimalist artists literalists , and used literalism as a pejorative due to his position that the art should deliver transcendental experience with metaphors , symbolism , and stylization . Per Fried's (controversial) view, the literalist art needs a spectator to validate it as art: an "object in a situation" only becomes art in the eyes of an observer. For example, for a regular sculpture its physical location

1598-419: The motto "Less is more" to describe his aesthetic. His tactic was one of arranging the necessary components of a building to create an impression of extreme simplicity—he enlisted every element and detail to serve multiple visual and functional purposes; for example, designing a floor to also serve as the radiator, or a massive fireplace to also house the bathroom. Designer Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) adopted

1645-530: The paintings of Barnett Newman , Ad Reinhardt , Josef Albers , and the works of artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso , Yayoi Kusama , Giorgio Morandi , and others. Yves Klein had painted monochromes as early as 1949, and held the first private exhibition of this work in 1950—but his first public showing was the publication of the Artist's book Yves: Peintures in November 1954. Michael Fried called

1692-729: The perception toward space, surface, and volume. Moreover, he likes to use natural materials because of their aliveness, sense of depth and quality of an individual. He is also attracted by the important influences from Japanese Zen Philosophy. Calvin Klein Madison Avenue, New York , 1995–96, is a boutique that conveys Calvin Klein's ideas of fashion. John Pawson's interior design concepts for this project are to create simple, peaceful and orderly spatial arrangements. He used stone floors and white walls to achieve simplicity and harmony for space. He also emphasises reduction and eliminates

1739-515: The repetitions of structures represent a sense of order and essential quality. The movement of natural light in buildings reveals simple and clean spaces. In the late 19th century as the arts and crafts movement became popular in Britain, people valued the attitude of 'truth to materials' with respect to the profound and innate characteristics of materials. Minimalist architects humbly 'listen to figure,' seeking essence and simplicity by rediscovering

1786-440: The simple and silence of architecture and enhances the light, wind, time and nature in space. John Pawson is a British minimalist architect; his design concepts are soul, light, and order. He believes that though reduced clutter and simplification of the interior to a point that gets beyond the idea of essential quality, there is a sense of clarity and richness of simplicity instead of emptiness. The materials in his design reveal

1833-615: The situation calls for them. The modern idea of a capsule wardrobe dates back to the 1970s, and is credited to London boutique owner Susie Faux. The concept was further popularized in the next decade by American fashion designer Donna Karan , who designed a seminal collection of capsule workwear pieces in 1985. To portray global warming to non-scientists, in 2018 British climate scientist Ed Hawkins developed warming stripes graphics that are deliberately devoid of scientific or technical indicia, for ease of understanding by non-scientists. Hawkins explained that "our visual system will do

1880-409: The somewhat older Sidney Janis and Stable Galleries. The genesis of the Green Gallery was Robert Scull's interest around 1959 in discovering and securing works by new artists directly, without having to deal with a gallery. While he had been making time to visit studios, he had a business to run and believed a gallery of his own would enable him to reap the benefits of this kind of research without

1927-450: The use of the hard edge , linear lines, simple forms, and an emphasis on two dimensions. Minimalism in sculpture can be characterized by very simple geometric shapes often made of industrial materials like plastic, metal, aluminum, concrete, and fiberglass; these materials are usually left raw or painted a solid colour. Minimalism was in part a reaction against the painterly subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism that had been dominant in

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1974-459: The valuable qualities in simple and common materials. The idea of simplicity appears in many cultures, especially the Japanese traditional culture of Zen Buddhist philosophy. Japanese manipulate the Zen culture into aesthetic and design elements for their buildings. This idea of architecture has influenced Western society, especially in America since the mid 18th century. Moreover, it inspired

2021-429: The visual distortions, such as the air conditioning and lamps, to achieve a sense of purity for the interior. Alberto Campo Baeza is a Spanish architect and describes his work as essential architecture. He values the concepts of light, idea and space. Light is essential and achieves the relationship between inhabitants and the building. Ideas are to meet the function and context of space, forms, and construction. Space

2068-588: The works of La Monte Young , Terry Riley , Steve Reich , Philip Glass , Julius Eastman and John Adams . The term has also been used to describe the plays and novels of Samuel Beckett , the films of Robert Bresson , the stories of Raymond Carver , and the automobile designs of Colin Chapman . In recent years, Minimalism has come to refer to anything or anyone that is spare or stripped to its essentials. Minimalism in visual art, sometimes called "minimal art", "literalist art" and "ABC Art", refers to

2115-556: The writer. Austrian architect and theorist Adolf Loos published early writings about minimalism in Ornament and Crime . The precursors to literary minimalism are famous novelists Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway . Some 1940s-era crime fiction of writers such as James M. Cain and Jim Thompson adopted a stripped-down, matter-of-fact prose style to considerable effect; some classify this prose style as minimalism. Another strand of literary minimalism arose in response to

2162-515: Was derived around 1970 by Michael Nyman from the concept of minimalism, which was earlier applied to the visual arts . More precisely, it was in a 1968 review in The Spectator that Nyman first used the term, to describe a ten-minute piano composition by the Danish composer Henning Christiansen , along with several other unnamed pieces played by Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik at

2209-561: Was mainly in vogue during the 1960s and 1970s, after which it once again gave way to more traditional haute cuisine , retroactively titled cuisine classique . However, the influence of nouvelle cuisine can still be felt through the techniques it introduced. The capsule wardrobe is an example of minimalism in fashion . Constructed of only a few staple pieces that do not go out of style, and generally dominated by only one or two colors, capsule wardrobes are meant to be light, flexible and adaptable, and can be paired with seasonal pieces when

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