reductivism
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- noun
- /rɪˈdʌktɪˌvɪzəm/
- Specialized
- This sculpture showcases reductivism by using only simple geometric shapes and a limited color palette.
Examples
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As in the iconic vocabulary of maritime emblems and buoys, this recourse to graphic resources fosters an extreme referential reductivism.
Academic text (1999) -
But at the same time, his notation tends toward an extreme reductivism.
Academic text (1999) -
Just as the emphasis on gender as an across-the-board intellectual principle has driven feminist critics to the crudest biological reductivism, so has it driven them to the crudest emotional reductivism.
Academic text (1993) -
Just as the emphasis on gender as an across-the-board intellectual principle has driven feminist critics to the crudest biological reductivism, so has it driven them to the crudest emotional reductivism.
Academic text (1993) -
Hope would meet the charge of reductivism by repeating the case developed in "An Epistle: Edward Sackville to Venetia Digby" and in the essay "Miracles," namely that the human spirit develops, in natural steps, from a material base.
Academic text (1992) -
The artist's latest work exemplifies a striking reductivism that simplifies complex ideas into pure forms.
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In the painting, the artist embraces reductivism to create an artwork that focuses on the essence of beauty through minimalism.
Synonyms
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A style in painting, sculpture, and design using very simple shapes and few colors
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An art movement from the 1950s that uses very simple shapes and few colors in sculpture and painting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reductivism comes from the word reduce, which means 'make smaller', plus the ending -ism, meaning 'style' or 'belief'. So reductivism describes an art style that makes forms and colors very simple to focus on the essential idea.