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SEUNG-TAEK LEE

In a painted canvas or sculpted form, visual balance is achieved in its most basic terms by the consonance of shapes and colors. The differences between these components may create tension and, hence, meaning, but one way or another, they are ultimately resolved, and from this arises harmony. The successful negation of meaning in minimalist art, then, lies in taking symmetry as a starting point—beginning

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