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Understanding Art – What Is Minimalism?

This is an article that I wrote for syndication. If you want to post this article on your own blog feel free but it must be posted as is including the two text links at the end. The links are to good content rich web sites and not spammy or sloggy sleaziness.  No need for a byline or a link back here but if you drop a comment you’ll get a back link out of the deal.

Most of the great artistic movements can be seen as either an extension of a preceding movement or as a reaction to one. Minimalism falls into both categories. It was a direct and forceful reaction to Expressionism in general and to the raw emotion and anti-intellectualism of Abstract Expressionism in particular. Minimalism was, however, firmly rooted in one overarching movement of the time and that was Modernism, which had already started a reductive process. It also provided the bridge between Modernism and Post Modernism. Put simply, it sought to do away with all external references, especially emotional and historical, and to create art that was completely self contained. Read more…

Free eBook Minimalist Cooking Recipes

Free Minimalist Cookery Recipe eBook

This is just a quick plug for my latest project well to be strictly honest my wife’s latest project that I help out a bit with, a free cookery recipe ebook.

Download The Minimalist Cook from this page

she used to have her own commercial kitchen but has had to stop baking due to health reasons. She has always enjoyed coming up with new recipes and writing so recipe ebooks and blogging is a very natural career move for her. Me? – I do the photography and the layout.

Anyway, enough waffle, here is the first installment of her plans for world domination, a free 7 recipe ebooklet with simple but extremely tasty main course dishes. The photographs are, of course wonderful, but I’m biased.

The recipes include simple roast beef, easy roast chicken, and a chicken and pecan salad, tuna salad, a really good bean salad and the best chile I’ve tasted.

The Minimalist Cook

Newly Added; Digital Art Desktop Wallpaper

I have just added some digital art images (around 35 images) that have been resized for use as Desktop wallpaper or background:

They can be found here

Photographs of beads

A few of the 200 or or so photographs that I shot this morning for a redesign of this site Candice Sexton Beads I will spend the next hour sorting through and selecting then on to the web site redesign.

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Rutger Hauer Guinness commerical

Rutger Hauer Guinness Commercial. This is a 90 second epic of a commerical.

I cannot top this description by person who posted this on You Tube,  Gabriela1, so I won’t even try.

It was the 1980s Rutger Hauer Pure Genius campaign that really set Guinness free to become the iconic brand it is today. The campaign associated the drink with a more contemplative and cool customer, and brilliantly separated it from the lovable drink of the Toucan days. It has become so loved that even its most annoying trait, the fact that it remains bar-cloggingly slow to pour, is now seen as a good thing…