Minimally detailed stories

I thought that Henry Green's essay on "The Novelist" was really interesting when he discusses breaking away from the concept of an author writing in a narratorial voice in which the narrator and reader are in dialogue. This concept he has of writing a story using the absolute bare minimum of description and as little "directions" to the reader as possible seems some what counterintuitive in that it seems that we were taught in school to use descriptive words to make more interesting stories. He sets up a challenging paradox with his idea of a minimalistic story while still being a work of art in which the author communicates with the reader. I really like his explanation of context as well, especially the way he relates the context of words for an author to the colors of paint for a painter in that they both create tone.