constructivism
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Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials.
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Theater. a style of scenic design characterized by abstraction, simplification, and stylization rather than realistic imitation.
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a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
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philosophy the theory that mathematical entities do not exist independently of our construction of them Compare intuitionism finitism
Other Word Forms
- constructivist noun
Etymology
Origin of constructivism
First recorded in 1920–25; constructive + -ism
Vocabulary lists containing constructivism
Example Sentences
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It showcases a collection of about 70 artworks in various formats representing different trends, from figurative art to futurism and constructivism.
From Reuters • Nov. 29, 2022
Indignation is not the only element in this series, which takes its style from Russian constructivism and its two-color scheme from the Risograph, a Japanese duplicating machine.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022
That year also saw the temporary appointment of Theo van Doesburg, the founder of the Dutch De Stijl movement, who influenced Bauhaus’s aesthetic shift toward constructivism.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2016
The force of his design comes partly from the Bauhaus and from constructivism, with its geometric directness and insistence on, as Games put it, "maximum meaning, minimum means".
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2014
A moderate interpretation of the Duhem-Quine thesis leads to a mixed constructivism, in which evidence and culture each have a part to play in the construction of scientific beliefs.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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