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5 Nov 2024 16:42:15 EST (-0500)
  Re: Minimalism?  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 15 Jul 2005 10:24:06
Message: <42d7c706$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am in doubt.
> This scene is built up with two spheres and two cubes (and two lights), so
> it might be called minimalistic. But then every painting made with one brush
> could be called minimalistic. 

Great line!  Of course there *are* those Robert Ryman paintings based on 
different brush sizes.

I know I should not compare POV scenes with
> traditional painting, though.

Why not?

> The central concept is fairly minimal, but it breaks-down gradually into the
> background (down the entropy slope), and what the eyes see is more something
> abstract expressionistic I believe.
> Still, my little toe tells me that ... blah blah blah....
> 

Well there is minimalist taste,...
then there was the minimalists themes
http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/entropy_and.htm


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