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PRESENTED BY:
1. AAKANKSHA SARDANA
2. ABHISHEK PANDEY
3. ADITI NAYYAR
4. ANKITA CHANDEL
5. ANKITA SINGH
6. VANSHIKA NANGELIA
ORIGIN AND HISTORY
Minimalism is chiefly an American movement originating from New York City in the
late 1960s and is characterized by extreme simplicity of form and a literal objective
approach.
It began postWorld War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts.
Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, John
McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella.
It is derived from the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a
reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to postminimal art practices.
TYPES OF MINIMALISTS
1. The Essentialist.
The essentialist ascribes to a philosophy of fewer, but better.
Do fewer things, but do them well.
Own fewer things, but choose things that will last.
Essentialism is a minimalism that focuses on quality, not quantity.
2. The Experientialist.
Instead of embracing materialism, experientalism is about collecting experiences.
The experientialist will invest in memories and free up resources for activities instead
of things.
3. The Enoughist.
Enoughism describes minimalism in terms of having enough, not having it all.
TYPES OF MINIMALISTS
The enoughist finds peace in voluntarily using enough and no more in any
category: food, clothing, home size, storage space, flashing links in your sidebar.
Enough looks different from person to person.
4. The Eco-Minimalist.
The eco-minimalist pursues a life of less consumption in order to reduce their impact
on the earth.
The focus is less on the benefits to the individual household, and more on the bigger
environmental picture.
5. The Soul Minimalist.
The soul minimalist cherishes stillness of soul, and works to keep mental and spiritual
clutter to a minimum.
MINIMALISM AS A FORM OF
EXPRESSION
Minimalism in fashion is much more than mere simplicity.
Designer Sanjay Gargs Raw Mango, best known for its bright, quirky prints came out with
a new collection Cloud People.
The collection emphasizes sheer fabrics and minimal cuts and silhouettes.
The designer chose handcrafted chikankari, zardozi and hand-woven brocade with angelic
motifs, floral prints and geometric figures.
The aim was to give a serene and other-worldly aura to the whole collection.
PRADA
Starting in the mid-80s, Prada strategically played into the fatigue of frills and
ruffles, and brought in minimalism.
Ornamentation was precise and spare. Silhouettes were exacting.
Prada employed synthetics with a deft handpolyester, nylonat a time when
luxury brands veered away from them.
The utilitarian, functional minimalism she engaged in produced pieces like the iconic
nylon backpack, Pradas first significant commercial success.
MAISON MARGEILA
Minimalism in visual art, generally referred to as "minimal art", "literalist art" and
"ABC Art" emerged in New York in the early 1960s as new and older artists moved
toward geometric abstraction;
Exploring via painting in the cases of Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Al
Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman and others;
And Minimalism in sculpture in the works of various artists including David
Smith, Anthony Caro, Tony Smith, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald
Judd and others.
MINIMALISTIC PAINTING
The Minimalists' emphasis on eradicating signs of authorship from their art by using
simple, geometric forms and industrial materials led to works that resembled simple
objects rather than traditional sculpture.
The focus on surface and the artist's absence meant that the meaning of the object
was not seen as inherent to the object itself, but came from the viewer's interaction
with the object.
This led to a new emphasis on the physical space in which the artwork resided. In
part, this development was inspired by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings on
phenomenology, in particular, The Phenomenology of Perception (1945).
Die (1962) Lever (1966)
Untitled by Robert Morris, 1965
By Tony Smith By Carl Andre
KEY IDEAS BEHIND MINIMALISM
IN SCULPTURE
The use of prefabricated industrial materials and simple, often repeated geometric
forms together with the emphasis placed on the physical space.
Experience qualities of weight, height, gravity, agility or even the appearance of light
as a material presence. Viewers were often faced with artworks that demanded a
physical as well as a visual response.
In particular, they rejected the formalist dogma espoused by the critic Clement
Greenberg that placed limitations on the art of painting and privileged artists who
seemed to paint under his direction. The Minimalists' more democratic point of view
was set out in writings as well as exhibitions by their leaders Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd,
and Robert Morris.
MINIMALISM IN MUSIC
Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical
materials. In the Western art music tradition the American composers La Monte
Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass are credited with being among the
first to develop compositional techniques that exploit a minimal approach.
It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially
viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School.
As an aesthetic, it is marked by a non-narrative, non-teleological, and non-
representational conception of a work in progress, and represents a new approach
to the activity of listening to music by focusing on the internal processes of the
music, which lack goals or motion toward those goals
KEY IDEAS BEHIND MINIMALISM
IN MUSIC
'Minimalist' music is based upon
the repetition of slowly
changing common chords in steady
rhythms, often overlaid with a lyrical
melody in long, arching phrases.
It utilizes repetitive melodic patterns,
consonant harmonies, motoric
rhythms, and a deliberate striving for
aural beauty.
MINIMALISM IN LITERATURE
Haiku is the very poetry form of Japanese poetry, a good example to minimalistic
literature.
It is typically characterised by three qualities:
1. The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition
of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal
punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in
which the juxtaposed elements are related.
2. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae though often loosely
JAPANESE HAIKU
translated as "syllables"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on, respectively.
3. An alternative form of haiku consists of 11 on in three phrases of 3, 5, and 3 on,
respectively.
4. A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list
of such terms
MINIMALISM IN ARCHITECTURE
Its purpose is to create simple, peaceful and orderly spatial arrangements. Through
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.
Room designs that can have a negative effect on your mood can include:
Clutter can make you become anxious
Darkness can make you feel down and depressed
An overly bright environment can cause you feel under stressed or pressurized
A very small or full room can make you feel trapped and claustrophobic
CHARACTERISTICS OF
MINIMALISTIC INTERIOR DESIGN
Minimal Furniture
Blank Walls
Clear Floors
Minimal Colors
Simple Dcor
FEATURES OF MINIMALISM
ANTI-FIGURATIVE FORMS
Figurative: derived from real object sources; representational of the human body or
real-life objects
The idea of accessibility, or accessible clothing, has briefly surfaced, such as using
cheap materials to make creative high-quality garments, and not having to conform
to the idealised beauty standards to do genderless, weightless and ageless clothing.
Deconstructionism brings the idea of democratic clothing even further, in that what
you see, is what you truly see.
It takes a complete garment and reduce it even further to its barest state.
MINIMALISM TODAY