User:Jvue07/Minimalism

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MINIMALISM

Your re-write of the lead paragraph is not bad, but the very first words are "In visual arts, music and other media,..." and the rest is strictly about visual arts, no reference to music or other media.

I see in the existing lead, music is addressed separately later on. So if you do want to focus on visual arts, then maybe separate your paragraph from the lead paragraph -- the lead can say visual arts, music, and other media -- and then as a separate paragraph, start explaining visual art separately, then in later paragraphs they address music and other mediums.

-- Your source for that new lead paragraph might be fine, I can't tell yet -- I can't access the link you added to the citation, it just prompts me to log into something called Choice Reviews. What is that? Find a way to cite the actual source (not a review of it) without requiring a paywall or for readers to have to create some sort of account... if that one can't be done, there are lots and lots of possible sources on general art and/or specifically on minimalism at the library (whole shelves full of books)

-- De Stijl is already featured in the "Design, architecture, and spaces" section of the article, so you do not need to add it -- however, that section is tagged as needing help: "This section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. (October 2020)"

So that plea for help could be a great place to start for a contribution to that section.

Lead-in

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism in the modern sense was an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt and Frank Stella. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives.

Minimalism in music often features repetition and gradual variation, such as the works of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman and John Adams.

The term 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.

In recent years, Minimalism has come to refer to anything or anyone that is spare or stripped to its essentials.

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I would rewrite this portion as:

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. Minimalism's key objectives were to strip away conventional characterizations of art through bringing the importance of the object or the experience a viewer has for the object with minimal mediation from the artist.

Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt and Frank Stella. Minimalism in music often features repetition and gradual variation, such as the works of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman and John Adams. The term 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.

In recent years, Minimalism has come to refer to anything or anyone that is spare or stripped to its essentials.

///I would consider using the Meggs textbook to even describe the importance of the Bauhaus movement, The New typography movement, and the De Stijl movement. Helvetica is not mentioned once in this article. Helvetica is one of the most prominent features in the graphic design field closely related to art and I think needs to be mentioned.

references

Universal Principles of Art : 100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art

by John A. Parks

Twentieth-Century American Art

by Erika Doss