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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. Compare suprematism.
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Theater. a style of scenic design characterized by abstraction, simplification, and stylization rather than realistic imitation.
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Constructivism
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| constructivism (kənˈstrʌktɪˌvɪzəm) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | 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 |
| 2. | philosophy intuitionism Compare finitism the theory that mathematical entities do not exist independently of our construction of them |
| con'structivist | |
| —adj, —n | |
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constructivism
1924, in ref. to an abstract artistic movement begun in Russia c.1920, from Rus. konstruktivizm. Related: Constructivist (1928).
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