the practice of seeking to give definite form to abstract things or ideas
concretism
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concretism
noun
- An artistic movement emphasizing the concrete reality of shape and color independent of representation or symbolism.
- The practice of writing concrete poetry.
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- con·cret′ist
noun
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Noun
(uncountable)
- (art) An abstractionist painting movement that evolved in the 1930s.
- reification; the fallacy of treating an abstraction like a real entity
Origin
concrete + -ism
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