Notions of symmetry and seriality were also important to
the shape of the Minimalists» compositions, with symmetry employed not only to simplify production but also as a means of removing the need to balance any one part of the composition with any other.
Not exact matches
By removing the horns
of the moose to slightly change the
shape of the face, giving the entire body a coat
of white paint, and enhancing it with soft white artificial fur you will be able to make a sweet sheep perfect for a neutral or
minimalist nursery.
Timeless yet always
of - the - moment, Donna Karan's sharp eye and distinct,
minimalist aesthetic continue to
shape the fashion landscape.
They have a range
of minimalist Scandi style boxy clothing which doesn't work at all with my
shape, but I can appreciate the style.
One
of their many
minimalist jackets is also a great choice, and with their designs focusing on the clean, flattering
shape you're free to accessorise your outwear, knowing that whether you go bold or simple you'll look great either way.
These specific gowns are delicate, like the petals
of a flower, in clean and
minimalist shapes.
There's a Korean style that blends both the old - world charm
of retro relaxed
shapes and modern
minimalist design, print and color that gets interpreted in the most appealing
of midi dresses I often gravitate to visually.
As well as the neat, simple design forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the
minimalist ambience
of the cabin, each made up
of simple linear
shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter».
The watch is extremely thin and makes no pretense
of being smart, relying on the chameleonic flexibility
of its appearance and a clean
minimalist shape to win over fans.
The
minimalist graphics combined with the unexpected intensity
of storytelling, reminded me inexorably
of Thomas Was Alone, the incredibly popular
minimalist puzzle platformer from 2012 which told a rich story using only colorful, four sided
shapes.
The developer and composer aimed to connect with players emotionally by using meditative piano music timed to the actions
of the player, abstract
shapes and a
minimalist palette, and ambiguous poetic phrases that appeared during play.
A simple idea, executed superbly, which fits the hand - held market to perfection, Mini Metro works despite the rather unglamorous premise
of playing as an underground transport designer
of a
minimalist world, where stations and passengers are plain, geometric
shapes.
It could be called
minimalist; however, I think the aesthetic
of the game is far too simple to be interesting in any way,
shape, or form.
Mr. Stella, 81, has been a
minimalist, a maximalist, a maker
of shaped canvases and a practitioner
of relief so high that it had to be called sculpture.
The so - called
minimalists featured in this section all rejected the dramatic inclinations
of this previous generation and turned toward specific investigations on the fundamentals
of an artwork, including light,
shape, and composition.
Some twenty desks, depending on just how one counts their irregular
shapes, cluster tightly, like a classroom short
of willing students (or, unlike Jeff Landman and his
Minimalist archaeology, chairs).
Drawing from biomorphism and
minimalist sculpture, along with Neo-concretism and other Brazilian vanguard movements
of the 1960s and»70s, Neto incorporates organic
shapes and materials that engage all five senses, producing a new type
of sensory perception that renegotiates boundaries between artwork and viewer; the organic and the manmade; and the natural, spiritual, and social worlds.
Even the most rule - driven
of Minimalists, Sol LeWitt, lets a crayon
shape float nearly free.
Bringing together a
minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields
of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy
of the conceptual approach in
shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion
of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator
of all possibilities.
Incorporating steel and concrete into a
minimalist design, the texture, materials, and
shapes of the structures will complement the existing architecture at the site.
By the late»60s, his focus on the character and
shape of brushstrokes evolved into a unique style that blended
minimalist abstraction with his interest in gesture, color, movement, and tactility.
Larry Bell is most commonly known for his
Minimalist sculptures — transparent cubes that thrive on the interplay
of shape, light, and environment — that champion the ideas
of the Light and Space Movement
of the 1960s.
Understood as the representatives
of the color - field sub-movement production, Washington painters produced
minimalist works featuring stripes, thin bands
of alternating colors, and geometric
shapes.
An innovative colorist, Kenneth Noland began his career as an Abstract Expressionist, became one
of the first practitioners
of Color Field painting as part
of the Washington Color School, and ultimately embraced a
Minimalist approach that comprised vivid color and simple geometric
shapes.
While Binion's monochromatic work has been compared critically to
minimalist practice, the artist resists that explanation and cites his work's narrative instead in the use
of his hands to make his paintings, and his choice
of child - like materials — wax crayons — which he presses onto
shaped wood and aluminum panels.
Not strictly a
minimalist, he has made a number
of monochrome paintings on
shaped canvases and single color rectangular panels.
Composed
of grids, lines, and geometric
shapes, the structures form a volumetric drawing within the space
of the gallery, referencing cheap commercial constructions as well as the serial patterning
of paintings and sculptures made by
Minimalist artists such as Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin.
Her work creates what she describes as the symphony
of light: creating
minimalist geometric
shapes and visuals that explore dark space while inviting people to reinvent themselves through the relationship between objects and visual images.
In fact, two new things did — the cheery, cheesy literalism
of pop art and the austerity
of the
minimalists, slipping their abstract
shapes, patterns and colours into the art gallery with the least possible personal inflection.
While his rigid planes
of color, unitary
shapes, and non-hierarchical compositions nod toward Minimalism, by transforming the
Minimalist square into a prison cell, Halley's works call the supposed neutrality
of such art into question.
They often take the
shape of stressed paintings, off - kilter
minimalist objects and color photographs with flame licks burned across them — objects instilled with vast amounts
of agency.
We installed neon
minimalist overhead lights in the
shape of an X, grouped in pairs near the entrance.
My illustration technique
of reducing
shapes, colours and compositions is an attempt to document these unique buildings using a
minimalist approach to illustration.»
The setup looks like some kind
of control center, but it also has the hallmarks
of serious
Minimalist art: geometric
shapes, serial repetition, a simple black - and - white palette and a relentless, thrumming drone.
Marking a departure from iconic mid-century modernist architectural forebears (Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and the
Minimalist sculptors who followed shortly thereafter (Donald Judd and Carl Andre), when Gillick works in three dimensions, his objects tend to be industrially fabricated in materials such as steel, aluminum, and Plexiglas and to take the
shape of autonomous platforms, shelves, cubes, and architectural interventions on the wall, floor, or ceiling.
«The best
of them tend toward abstraction, like Katia Santibanez's
minimalist painting Universal Pleasure, a bifurcated, heart -
shaped patch
of dark brushstrokes...»
And yet, by suspending each object on a white backdrop, and introducing abstract
shapes and blocks
of colour, Reynolds makes a more
minimalist, contemporary statement.
Hoyland's painterly, «expressionistically» inclined, version
of colour /
shape abstraction steered clear
of the sometimes aloof, emotionally reserved,
minimalist aesthetic embraced by, say, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly or Kenneth Noland.
This volume highlights the work
of American artist Leon Polk Smith (1906 — 96), one
of the founders
of the hard - edge style
of minimalist art, who rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his distinctive
shaped canvas series.
What's important to Mignoni is how the exhibition demonstrates the importance
of women, past and present, in
shaping and continuing the dialogue in
Minimalist and Post-
Minimalist art.
Sol LeWitt's work should be viewed in the historical context
of Russian Constructivists,
Minimalists and Abstract Expressionists like El Lissitsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Joseph Albers and others who have chosen the familiar
shapes and considered them in brand new contexts thus transforming their very purpose and significance.
Rick Lapointe's
minimalist steel sculpture «Smile» speaks to this time where we are ever so present in the
shaping of our world.
Simultaneously chaotic and cathartic, the structures encompass a new and unique style, combining
minimalist qualities with a monochrome finish, mainly black but expanding to gold and white towards the end
of her career, that draw viewers» focus towards the bare
shapes of objects.
Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18 figurative and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon -
shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered
Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings
of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight
of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).
Minimalist in conception, for the last 50 years, Simeti's work has comprised
of dynamic patterns
of ovals that dance across the monochromatic surfaces
of shaped canvases.
He is best known for large - scale, translucent resin cast sculptures in a variety
of apparently simple, geometric
shapes — that vary none the less greatly from the
Minimalist grids and cubes.
She then exhibits the uniformly
shaped strips in the gallery in a deliberate, regimented manner that recalls
minimalist sculpture and creates a tension with the random, abstract patterns
of the weather marks on the paper.
Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s, when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions
of Color Field and
Minimalist art, including
Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum.
One
of the most important artists
of SoCal's postwar period, McLaughlin is known for quiet,
minimalist works that explore total abstraction: geometries and lines that explore ideas
of shape and space, but not representation.
Hesse, possessed
of material ingenuity and an apparent naughty streak, took that ethos and pushed its outer limits, making works from latex, rubber, fibreglass and wire mesh, coagulating her materials not into pure form, as the
Minimalists intended, but suggestively sensual abstract
shapes.