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2 unusual facts about Minimalism


Anella Olímpica

Rational and minimal, is linked to water trough pools and a transversal canal.

Neo-minimalism

Contemporary artists who have been linked to the term, or who have been included in shows employing it, include Jerry Brown, David Burdeny, Catharine Burgess, Marjan Eggermont, Paul Kuhn, Eve Leader, Tanya Rusnak, Daniel Ong, Laurel Smith, Christopher Willard, and Tim Zuck.


Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

These three stations demonstrated a change of design priorities straying away from Stalinist architecture to the new minimalism centipede designs supported under Nikita Khrushchev's leadership.

Castle Drogo

The stately home borrows styles of castle building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches.

Charley Harper

He contrasted his nature-oriented artwork with the realism of John James Audubon, drawing influence from Cubism, Minimalism, Einsteinian physics and countless other developments in Modern art and science.

Christopher Willis

He is also a musicologist specializing in eighteenth-century music, especially Domenico Scarlatti, although he has written about other subjects including American minimalism.

Eric Carbonara

Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Hindustani classical music.

Four Seasons Resort Carmelo, Uruguay

While exuding a minimalist elegance of Balinese and Japanese resorts, the designers (San Francisco-based Babey Moulton Jue & Booth) incorporated influences from China, Thailand, Europe and South America to fuse together a contemplative, yet familiar feel.

Frederick Spratt

Spratt was informed by the formalist art of Josef Albers, minimalist painting by Ellsworth Kelly and Ad Reinhardt, and abstract expressionist painting by Barnett Newman; his work was also deeply influenced by his early days as a sign painter.

Heikkinen – Komonen Architects

Their work is characterised as a fusion between minimalism, high-technology and Abstract expressionism, typified by their design for the Vuotalo Cultural Centre in Helsinki, or the Heureka Science Centre, in Vantaa with the juxtaposition of stark concrete elements against colourful high-tech metal structures and large glazed surfaces.

Mbira music

However, in most Mbira music, there are minute variations, suggestive of the minimalist movement in western music (for example Philip Glass et al.).

Nailia Galiamova

She chooses traditional genres, moderate stylistics (displaying features of neo-classicism and minimalism) and tonal harmonic language.

Neurofunk

In 2002, Sinthetix, Cause 4 Concern, and Silent Witness & Break took Konflict's hard edge, minimalist approach with emphasis on colder, precision beat engineering, harder stabs over the bassline, sharper mixdowns and simultaneously, hastening the advancement of the style's sound design between the periods of 2002 and 2005 along with Gridlok, Corrupt Souls, Noisia, Phace, and The Upbeats.

Nike ONE

The minimalist design is inspired by Nike founder Bill Bowerman's principles of less is more.

Purdey Fitzherbert

Fitzherbert categorizes herself mainly as an abstract painter, but also claims influences from Conceptual art movements, Op art, Minimalism, Impressionism, and Light art.

Richard Sapper

Using the aesthetic of sculptural minimalism, they created the compact folding Grillo telephone for Siemens and Italtel in 1965.

Roger Kimball

In a series of essays and reviews, he touches on numerous subjects including minimalism, the Barnes Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and examines artists including Vincent van Gogh, Edward Burne-Jones, Gustave Moreau, Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Paul Klee.

SlimWare Utilities

The general promotion of SlimWare Utilities’ programs focuses on the idea of minimalism on a personal computer: the philosophy aims to promote productivity and safety through respectively marginalizing resource-consuming elements and decreasing surfaces of attack.


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