Creating a minimalist bedroom requires thoughtful consideration of what truly adds value to the space. Minimalism is about more than just aesthetics; it is a lifestyle choice that promotes simplicity and intentionality.
By focusing on a few essential elements, you can transform your bedroom into a tranquil haven that’s free from clutter and distractions.
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Pop-ups elicit mixed feelings about website design and user experience, oscillating between beneficial and detrimental. They serve well in capturing leads, showcasing promotions, and fostering engagement. Conversely, they risk intrusiveness and potentially diminishing the enjoyment of a site. Timing thereof is absolutely decisive; an untimely appearance may exasperate users. The trade-off? Value.
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America artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923 – 2015), whose work I have often covered here on ‘The Gig, forged a distinctive style of abstraction over his seven decades as an artist. On May 31st, 2019 Kelly was commemorated with 10 U.S. Postal Service stamps highlighting his work. Â Amazing!
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Alejandro Puente (1933 – 2013) was at the fore of a group of artists from La Plata, Argentina, who shared with American Minimalist and Conceptual artists of the 1960s a devotion to the rigorous exploration of systems of color and form. This composition reflects Puente’s preference for the primary colors as they appear unmixed on a color wheel. Arranged together, four equilateral triangles make up a single, larger triangle, with the three primary colors radiating out from an anchor in black. An even white strip runs along two sides of each triangle, suggesting a state of incompleteness while also creating the perimeter of overall composition. As this composite work suggests, the abstract vocabularies practiced by La Plata artists effectively abandoned traditional painting by embracing the shaped canvas, the support assuming its own identity in space as an object
Photographed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
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While living and working in Paris, from 1948 to 1954,  Ellsworth Kelly (1923 – 2015) developed an abstract vocabulary of line, form, and color and began is career-long investigation into how figure and ground are perceived in nonrepresentational painting. He became interested in the way that painting engages with the architectural space that it inhabits; rather than attempting to simulate three-dimensional perspective in a composition, he instead considered the wall to be a kind of ‘ground’ and the painting itself a figure on it.
In Orange Green (1964), made the following decade when he was back in New York, he established the figure-ground relationship on the canvas itself through the careful balance of two areas of color: the truncated orange egg-shape is the figure and the bright green color that surrounds it functions as its background.
Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.