Minimalism

In “Everything Stuck to Him” by Raymond Carver, Carver discusses the a young couple’s life as parents. Carver utilizes a frame story- a story within a story- to describe the young man’s life the choices he has made. In the short story, Carver uses diction, a minimalistic style, a frame story, and symbolism to emotionally impact the reader and develop the piece. Foremost, Carver utilizes a casual and simplistic diction to garner a feeling of innocence within the story. This innocent and…

One of the artwork styles is Photorealism which is “create representational images, including pen and ink, pastels, and prints, in the 1980s and beyond” according to Arthistory.net website. The style started in the 1960s with Minimalism and Pop Art and put it together. First of all, the artists began with a camera to take a picture then create their art with pen, ink, and other media to create their own art. One artist, Ralph Goings who painted McDonalds Pickup in 1970 which has an old-fashioned…

Janine Antoni: Gender and Art In 1993 Janine Antoni, a Bahaman born artist, created the piece Butterfly Kisses. Antoni began by coating her eyelashes with Cover Girl Thick Lash mascara. She used her eyelashes as a paint brushes and butterfly kissed or blinked on a pieces of paper with her right and left 1,245 times creating a diptych. In a lot of Janine works, she takes parts of everyday beauty routines and creates a new perspective in a performance piece. According to Janine Antoni MATRIX…

ARS Trio is a darkly twisted experimental Portuguese project composed of Renato Diz on piano, Sergio Tavares on double bass, and Jorge Queijo on drums and percussion. Despite the plans regarding this project had started in 2009, only recently the band members have reunited in Portugal to record their debut album, Poetics of Sight, strongly influenced by film and released on the W&J Productions, a new record label from New York. Using imaginative techniques and resorting to unconventional sounds,…

three to eleven edges, or "parts," encourage the viewer to mentally construct a complete cube--for LeWitt, a symbol of three-dimensionality. Here you see the third combination of eight parts that imply a cube. Although LeWitt thinks of the term "minimalism" as condescending to his art, his use of forms pared down to their pure geometric essences links him to the Minimalist movement. LeWitt considers himself a conceptual artist and emphasizes the process of creation, from initial idea to finished…

Finally, I will try to present the one of his well-known short stories “Hills look like White Elephants” and discuss its structure. To begin with, Ernest Hemingway is well-known for his economical style, he was perceived as a master of minimalism. His writing is minimalistic and concise without any sophisticated words. Hemingway's unique style is called "The Iceberg Theory" or “The Theory of Omission”, it means that the writer can omit things…

The Joy of Less introduced me to the minimalist philosophy by which I still live today. It taught me that there is no designated script or doctrine for minimalism: there’s no set number of things to own and you don’t have to have all-white furniture. Simply put, minimalism is having enough. “Enough” will look different for everyone based on lifestyle: for example, a sous chef’s “enough” in the kitchen will be greater than a bachelor who regularly dines out. The…

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947. Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14. After he matriculated at Harvard University in 1965 he studied composition under Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, and David Del Tredici. He earned two degrees from Harvard University (BA 1969, MA 1972). His piece "American Standard"…

experiences allowed him to continue designing for many plays and led him to popularizing the use of Scaffolds, pipes, railings, and set pieces without the realistic nature. This new abstract form of American design called “New Minimalism”.In later years he moved away from the college minimalism of creating a "visual statement" to a more "text-centered" approach that was tied thematically and situationally to the play. Ming Cho Lee very much enjoyed using the literal or visual statement of play…

in the 18th we start seeing art in different ways. It rejected the ideals of traditionalism allowing artist to expand outside their horizons to different mediums and techniques. From there forward we see all types of styles such as impressionism, minimalism, abstract, photorealism, pop art and more. Just like photography, dance is becoming more and more popular in the art industry. The acknowledgment that it has received recently its immense that dance is now a new category of art. An art that…