Minimalism

Less-is-more movement

Minimalism is the principle of reducing things to their essentials—stripping away ornamentation, excess, and distraction.

In art and design, it favors clean lines, simple forms, and limited elements: The room's minimalism felt almost austere.

As a lifestyle philosophy, minimalism means owning fewer possessions and focusing on what matters: She embraced minimalism after moving into a tiny apartment.

lifestyle

decluttering

Eliminating unnecessary possessions

capsule wardrobePared-down clothing collection
intentional livingDeliberate approach to life choices
downsizingReducing workforce or scale

Marie Kondo · essentialism · tiny house · consumption · possessions · simplify · digital detox · slow living · frugality · letting go

philosophy

wabi-sabi

Aesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness

ZenMeditative Buddhist school
essentialismDoctrine of fixed natures
detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement

contentment · non-attachment · sufficiency · mindfulness · presence · Thoreau · Walden · simple living · Stoicism · enough

design

simplicity

Lack of complexity

clean linesUnadorned, distinct boundaries
negative spaceEmpty area around forms
declutterRemove unnecessary items

Bauhaus · Scandinavian · monochrome · functionality · neutral palette · unadorned · streamlined · geometric · Muji · less is more

music

Philip Glass

American minimalist composer

repetitionAct of redoing
droneUnmanned flying machine
arpeggiosChord notes played individually

phasing · pulse · ambient · Brian Eno · loops · hypnotic · meditative · John Adams · ostinato · layering

art

geometric

Relating to mathematical shapes

monochromaticOf one hue
reductiveOversimplifying complex matters
industrial materialsSubstances for manufacturing processes

seriality · repetition · grid · stark · impersonal · literalism · cube · fluorescent · installation · gallery

Minimalism

decluttering

wabi-sabi

simplicity

Philip Glass

geometric

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