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the art of owning less so your stuff stops quietly owning you
means An aesthetic and lifestyle that strips things down to the bare essentials — whether in art, design, music, or how many spoons you actually keep.
from From the Latin 'minimus,' meaning 'smallest' or 'least,' the same root that gives us 'minimum' and 'minor.' The '-ism' arrived in the mid-20th century, when art critics needed a name for painters and sculptors who reduced their work to plain shapes, single colors, and stark simplicity. The word later escaped the gallery and wandered into furniture, music, and finally the empty apartments of people who decided that fewer things meant fewer worries.
- origin
- Began as 1960s art rebellion against emotional excess
- hidden cost
- Often pricier; one perfect chair beats ten cheap ones
- japanese root
- Ma, the powerful art of meaningful empty space
- steve jobs
- His near-empty mansion had almost no furniture
- paradox
- Selling minimalism became a booming consumer industry
agnes martin — american artist who created minimal abstract grid paintings and drawings from 1956 onwards
donald judd — artist who created serial metal boxes and industrial minimalist sculptures starting in the 1960s
carl andre — sculptor known for floor-based minimalist works like his 1966 'equivalent viii' of 120 bricks