Reductive | Emphasize Extreme simplification Form and color |
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eductionism embraces a theory explaining the nature of complex things as reduced to simpler or more fundamental elements. This concept can apply to objects, phenomena, rationalizations, theories, and significance. An opposing theory is holism; the proposal that things can have properties as a whole which are unexplainable from only the sum of their parts.
In the context of art, both ends of the above continuum can be represented through minimalism. I have been thinking about this and am interested in developing the skill to say more with less. Today's image is an effort in this direction.
“I think we have to get away from the idea of minimalism as a style and instead understand it as a way of thinking about space - its proportions, surfaces and the fall of light. The vision is comprehensive and seamless, a quality of space rather than forms, places not things.” - John Pawson
