Minimalism

Corporate transparency Opening case study: Apple In the early 1970s, Xerox developed world-changing computer technology, as well as the mouse and the graphical user interface. (Modern GUIs include Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.) One of the devices was called the Xerox Alto, a desktop personal computer that Xerox never concerned to market. A decade later, several Apple employees, including Steve Jobs, visited the Xerox PARC research and development capability for three days in exchange for $1…

self-titled Iceberg Principle: “Eliminate everything unnecessary… [so that] the reader… will have a feeling of [what is absent] as strongly as though the writer had stated [it]” (Wood, 102-103). Hemingway was renowned for his distinct clarity and minimalism, which kept his message implicit and allowed the reader to analyze connections. Hemingway recognized that, in this way, the reader could engage in a higher level of thought and interaction. Each reader could interpret his scarce prose in a…

For centuries, artists have made still-life artworks as a response to the world around them, preserving both material possessions and concepts in their works. Two display examples of this are Dutch Golden Age still life painter, Pieter Claesz (executed works include ‘Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball’ and ‘Nature morte au crabe’), and British, eccentric, contemporary artist, Damien Hirst (creator of iconic works ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ and ‘Chicken’).…

Xinzhu (Zoe) Ma Music History II March 25th, 2016 From the Old To the Folk: Dvorák and Haydn On a chilly Friday night, Nichole and I went to the Ohio Theatre for the concert featuring music by Dvorak and Haydn. The solemn air swelling in the street and the dazzling atmosphere in the concert hall supplemented my expectation towards the concert; when we finally sat on our seats, I couldn’t wait for it to start. The concert includes not only the works of Haydn and Dvorak, but also of a Native…

Being a pioneer in the minimalism and the feminist art movement, Yayoi Kusama is constantly pushing boundaries in the realm of culture and art. Every element in Kusama’s artwork, such as repetition, pattern and accumulation, questions the viewers to rethink social and political norms of society in the hopes that it would inspire change to gender equality. Her installation, Walking Piece, serves as an exemplary example of dissolving boundaries between humanity, art and environment. Dressed in a…

In the midst of the concrete jungle of the city of New York, there stands an iconic art museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1959, the museum flares as an expression of modern artistic construction. The museum permanently houses “world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks, as well as some of the greatest 20th-century paintings by famous painters from all over the world” . The museum was…

To look at art, you need time. Looking at art is just as difficult as making it; to fully know what an art piece can give you, you have to take the time to let it talk to you. As if you tell someone a story and tell them to tell someone else, but that someone else walks away mid-story. You are that someone else, the artist is giving a story to a canvas, and if you don’t give the canvas the same amount of time that the artist gave it, you won’t hear the whole story. Paintings that are…

I immediately dashed for the contemporary art part of the museum. For me, contemporary art resonates with me and I appreciate the bold lines and minimalism that comes with the style of artwork. The exhibit was beautiful, and bold in color. The walls in which the artwork hung was a stark white, which really allowed the colors to bounce off the walls and each other. "This exhibit was created in 2000…

Throughout Thornton Wilder's play “Our Town” he showcases different aspect he adds to his plays and the various theme's he incorporates into them as well. Such of these aspects is how Wilder created this play by simply using the Stage Manager to not only narrate the play, but also a way to make much like an ordinary citizen of Grover’s Corner. Finally Wilder created different themes throughout his play each theme was to match it’s own act such as life, love and ending with death as the final…

In a New York Times book review, Sheila Ballantyne explains that, “at its worst, minimalism is a kind of fraudulent tic that serves to hide a vacuum or defend against feeling. At its best it can, with economy and restraint, amplify perception and force meaning to leap from the page. In most of the stories that make up this first collection…