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3 dictionary results for: Minimalism
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min·i·mal·ism       [min-uh-muh-liz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
1.Music. a reductive style or school of modern music utilizing only simple sonorities, rhythms, and patterns, with minimal embellishment or orchestrational complexity, and characterized by protracted repetition of figurations, obsessive structural rigor, and often a pulsing, hypnotic effect.
2.minimal art.
[Origin: 1965–70; minimal + -ism]
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min·i·mal·ism       (mĭn'ə-mə-lĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, rejective art.
  2. Use of the fewest and barest essentials or elements, as in the arts, literature, or design.
  3. Music A school or mode of contemporary music marked by extreme simplification of rhythms, patterns, and harmonies, prolonged chordal or melodic repetitions, and often a trancelike effect.

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minimalism

noun
an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color 

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