concretism

Proper noun. In painting, an abstractionist movement evolving in the 1930's out of the work of De Stijl, the Futurists and Kandinsky around the Swiss painter Max Bill. It came to fruition in Northern Italy and France in the 1940's and 1950's through the work of the groups Movimento d'arte concreta (MAC) and Espace.

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