Word: minimalist
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...Jagger also has scorn for the power he wields. He slurs his meanest lines with utter disregard, perhaps to illustrate how idiotic it is to hang on every syllable he and Richards decide to cram into a verse. By the same token, take a look at any picture of minimalist drummer Charlie Watts in action, and you will probably find that famous wry smile and sweatless brow. He knows what he's doing by keeping you waiting for his occasional flourishes. Though he may look a little bored, Watts understands the unique funkiness his bosses need, and he is wise...
...sounded but how it was "organized"-audiences searching for emotional satisfaction turned away, seeking solace in earlier periods. The counterrevolution against the Schoenberg-Webern-Boulez triumvirate is now well advanced, however, with a variety of conservatives, neoconservatives (including apostates from serialism such as George Rochberg) and so-called minimalists all striving to make new music vital again. Glass generally is lumped with Composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley in the minimalist camp because of his simple melodies and his dependence on repetition instead of traditional motivic development. An admirer of punk and New Wave music, Glass is unabashed about...
...spent $1,250 for an Inaugural morning suit (the whole elaborately striped works). As soon as he and Nancy got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they began investing the place with a swank and shine it has not had since early Camelot, restoring many of the touches that the minimalist Carter had banned. They put the trumpeters back on the White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They...
...catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation of detail forces us to reflect on process-how they were made, why they need to carry so much information. They are conceptual art, of a kind: Idea before Painting. What other realist painter comes near this minimalist harshness? Close's images pay absolute homage to the power of an overriding system; they might have been done on autopilot...
...transforming his standard face of Philip Glass into an almost rococo swirl of repeated fingerprints impressed on the canvas from an ink pad: a literal parody, if ever there was one, of the "sense of touch" in traditional painting. But always he seems to be after a kind of minimalist nirvana where, as he puts it, "every square inch was physically the same, where there was no area of more beautiful brushing or virtuoso art marks...