Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to envision his Administration sometimes find their minds drifting back to the 1950s. Ike, they tell themselves. Maybe, if he won, Ronald Reagan would turn into a kind of Eisenhower. Or at any rate, maybe the effect would be the same: a long quiescence, an essentially sane and minimalist White House presiding over a "normality" that the nation has not experienced for a generation. Even some voters who are chilled by Reagan's politics and his followers have begun to take wistful consolation in the thought that the future under Reagan might be a kind of doubling back...
...sometimes grotesque - that posture against fathomless space are what Miró's latter-day disciples have most tried to imitate. But Miró could not care less. He still feels himself as an explorer. A series of canvases that he produced in 1961 are as empty as any minimalist could wish. In Blue II, a staccato of emphatic black shapes ends in an exclamation point of red, all set against an azure expanse. Says Miró: "Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains, everything that is stripped has always impressed...