Constructivism

Quick meaning: Constructivism is a noun meaning (art) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.

Meaning

(art) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
2. (mathematics) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
3. (philosophy, psychology, education) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.

Example Sentences

At bottom, constructivism opposes axiomatization as the fundamental idea in mathematics.

Many masterpieces of Soviet constructivism are now crumbling under capitalism, replaced by pastiche architecture or pale replicas of former buildings.

Art in the first half of the 20th century was powerfully shaped by Constructivism and Supremicism in the East and by Cubism, Futurism, and Surrealism in the West.

Constructivism wasn't just Russian state propaganda - its blend of optimism and pragmatism and its emphasis on equality and the collective prefigured key developments in 20th-century art.

Word Forms

• constructivisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include concretism, neoprimitivism, conceptualism, concretist, neoconcretism, reductivism.

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