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Constructivism

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Noun

1. constructivism

an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Constructivism

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noun
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
the theory that mathematical entities do not exist independently of our construction of them
Compare intuitionism (sense 4), finitism

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Constructivism

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noun
an early 20th-cent. movement in sculpture, painting, architecture, etc., orig., in the Soviet Union, characterized by abstract and geometric design, man-made materials, and massive structural form

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Constructivism

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n.
A movement in modern art originating in Moscow in 1920 and characterized by the use of industrial materials such as glass, sheet metal, and plastic to create nonrepresentational, often geometric objects.

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