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title:  "The Ride In The Woods"
date:   2020-01-23
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<strong>Minimalism</strong> describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, wherein artists intend to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. Minimalism is any design or style wherein the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.
<blockquote>I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.</blockquote>
As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects of Modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract expressionism and a bridge to Postminimal art practices. <a title="Minimalism Source" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism" target="_blank">{ Source }</a>

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The terms have expanded to encompass a movement in music that features such repetition and iteration as those of the compositions of<em> La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams</em>. Minimalist compositions are sometimes known as systems music. The term "minimalist" often colloquially refers to anything that is spare or stripped to its essentials. It has also been used to describe the plays and novels of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and the automobile designs of Colin Chapman. The word was first used in English in the early 20th century to describe the Mensheviks.
