Minimalism
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Minimalism describes a movement in certain forms of art. Like visual art and music, where is the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features (Wikipedia.org). Visual minimalism such as painting will use a limited number of colors and have simple geometric design. In musical minimalism like classical music the term minimalism is sometimes applied to music which displays all of the following features: repetition, stasis, emphasis on consonant harmony; a steady pulse. Minimalist movement in music has little relationship to the movement of the same name in visual art. As I found out this connect is the reason why many minimalist composers dislike this term. In the following essay I will show different examples of minimalism in paintings.
Minimalism in paintings was a twentieth century art movement and style that stressed the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. This art made no representation or symbolize any other objects or experience...