concretism

[ kon-kree-tiz-uhm, kong-, kon-kree-tiz-uhm, kong- ]

noun

1. the theory or practice of concrete poetry.

Other Words From

• con·cretist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of concretism¹

concrete + -ism

Example Sentences

Bergamin & Gomide, from São Paulo, is displaying paintings and works on paper by familiar names like Lygia Pape, but also by Brazilian modernists less attested in Western museums, like Judith Lauand, whose geometric compositions pared Concretism down to its most minimal elements, and Alfredo Volpi, who painted faint, woozy-edged abstractions that are as tantalizing as Ms. Lauand’s are exacting.

From New York Times

"If you are interested in art movements such as Suprematism, Concretism, Neoplasticism, or what Bauhaus has delivered, then you are going to love the world that we have created," developer Michal Staniszewski wrote in a blog post.

From The Verge

According to concretism's boosters, it has attracted scores of practitioners�designers, architects, mathematicians, composers, communications theorists�everybody, it would seem, but poets.

From Time Magazine Archive

To judge by these anthologies, concretism is longer on juxtapositions and fragmentations than it is on meanings.

From Time Magazine Archive