Synopsis
The term Minimalism emerged in New York in the early 1960s within the reduced design of Bauhaus (form follows function) and is still present in our century. Also, the Japanese ideas such as Zen or Ma influenced the Minimalism. „It is a more meditative approach [...], designed to encourage mental peace and quiet.“ (Brown., 2016) The clean lines and the neutral color palette is essential for it. Minimalism is also considered as an important movement of postmodernist art known as the style of abstract painting and preference of reduction. It decreases to the essential of geometric abstraction and focuses its attention to the materiality of the work itself. (Viscopy, Art Gallery NSW) Around the 1970s, Minimalism was established in Amerika …show more content…
Both moved forward the color and area itself and left the well-known contour line aside. They also focus on the light and its atmosphere, which can be dedicated as an essential part for minimalism. (Joshua Burton, unknown). Vincent van Gogh‘s Starry Night (1889) (Fig.4) supports these developments exemplarily. Afterward, the Expressionism (1910 - 1925) moved forward into the world of color and surface to express the inner world of emotion. „These techniques were meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world.“ (TheArtHistory, n.k.) Edvard Munch visualized this concept with „The Scream“(1893) (Fig.5). This technique reduced the reality more and more to the essential embassy. The Cubism (1907 - 1911), focused on collaging and a combination of different materials, established and supported by Pablo Picasso‘s painting of „Les Demoiselles d‘Avignon“ (1907) (Fig.6), abandons the primary focus on one viewpoint. The multiplicity of an object in its materiality, but also in its meaning gets more attention. It might seem as a maximalist approach, but still, the artist concentrates on the essential features of an object and visualizes it with less accuracy, because it is not …show more content…
At this decade possessions represented more than ever wealth and status in society. (planet-wissen, 2016). At the time of the second movement, the Renaissance (1300 - 1800) life bloomed in its richest way. Simultaneous the humanism developed and the Greek philosophical perspective written down by Protagoras „Man is the measure of all things“, was rediscovered. This statement appears as a manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. (Clark, 2013) This philosophical approach in combination with the Renaissance supported already the maximalist side in the human kind. The multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) and his countless great achievements should be mentioned, but also Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) who created „The Last Judgement“(1541). (Fig.8) Both of them benefited from the maximalist
The term Minimalism emerged in New York in the early 1960s within the reduced design of Bauhaus (form follows function) and is still present in our century. Also, the Japanese ideas such as Zen or Ma influenced the Minimalism. „It is a more meditative approach [...], designed to encourage mental peace and quiet.“ (Brown., 2016) The clean lines and the neutral color palette is essential for it. Minimalism is also considered as an important movement of postmodernist art known as the style of abstract painting and preference of reduction. It decreases to the essential of geometric abstraction and focuses its attention to the materiality of the work itself. (Viscopy, Art Gallery NSW) Around the 1970s, Minimalism was established in Amerika …show more content…
Both moved forward the color and area itself and left the well-known contour line aside. They also focus on the light and its atmosphere, which can be dedicated as an essential part for minimalism. (Joshua Burton, unknown). Vincent van Gogh‘s Starry Night (1889) (Fig.4) supports these developments exemplarily. Afterward, the Expressionism (1910 - 1925) moved forward into the world of color and surface to express the inner world of emotion. „These techniques were meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world.“ (TheArtHistory, n.k.) Edvard Munch visualized this concept with „The Scream“(1893) (Fig.5). This technique reduced the reality more and more to the essential embassy. The Cubism (1907 - 1911), focused on collaging and a combination of different materials, established and supported by Pablo Picasso‘s painting of „Les Demoiselles d‘Avignon“ (1907) (Fig.6), abandons the primary focus on one viewpoint. The multiplicity of an object in its materiality, but also in its meaning gets more attention. It might seem as a maximalist approach, but still, the artist concentrates on the essential features of an object and visualizes it with less accuracy, because it is not …show more content…
At this decade possessions represented more than ever wealth and status in society. (planet-wissen, 2016). At the time of the second movement, the Renaissance (1300 - 1800) life bloomed in its richest way. Simultaneous the humanism developed and the Greek philosophical perspective written down by Protagoras „Man is the measure of all things“, was rediscovered. This statement appears as a manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. (Clark, 2013) This philosophical approach in combination with the Renaissance supported already the maximalist side in the human kind. The multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) and his countless great achievements should be mentioned, but also Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) who created „The Last Judgement“(1541). (Fig.8) Both of them benefited from the maximalist