Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression. In other fields of art, it has been used to describe the plays of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.

As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with the visual arts. The term has expanded to encompass a movement in music which features repetition and iteration, for example the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams, Edward Richardson and Terry Riley. (See also Post-Minimalism). It is rooted in the spare aspects of Modernism, and is often associated with Postmodernism and reaction against Expressionism in both painting and composition.

The term "minimalist" can also refer to anything which is spare, stripped to its essentials, or providing only the outline of structure, independent of the particular art movement, and "minimalism" the tendency to reduce to fundamentals. It is sometimes applied to groups or individuals practicing asceticism and the reduction of physical possessions and needs to a minimum.

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Time for the end of year clean out! We're all cleaning out our files today for a fresh start in 2010 - yay minimalism!
MarketWaveAP (Angela Pena) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:32:51 -0000
Time for the end of year clean out! We're all cleaning out our files today for a fresh start in 2010 - yay minimalism!
Beautiful minimalism >> chum RT @lib_lab: Just launched a site for a great friend & photographer Stuart Smyth - http://www.stuartsmyth.ie/
V1talspark (Adam Clare) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:37:52 -0000
Beautiful minimalism >> chum RT @lib_lab: Just launched a site for a great friend & photographer Stuart Smyth - http://www.stuartsmyth.ie/
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