noun. An artistic movement emphasizing the concrete reality of shape and color independent of representation or symbolism.

noun. The practice of writing concrete poetry.

noun. The habit or practice of regarding as concrete or real what is abstract or ideal.

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.

noun. a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms

"Although the terminology varies (one can equivalently speak about reism, concretism or nominalism), two claims of any theory going against general (abstract) objects should be very sharply distinguished."

internal representation  mental representation  representation  

embodiment  shape  

concrete art