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structurist, n. (and a.)|ˈstrʌktjʊərɪst|
[f. structure n. + -ist.]
1. A builder. rare.
1860Worcester (citing N. Brit. Rev.).
2. An artist whose work emphasizes underlying structural forms and processes in nature; applied esp. to the U.S. artist Charles Biederman (b. 1906) and by him to earlier artists in whose work he perceived this tendency. Also attrib. or as adj.
1958C. Biederman New Cézanne viii. 61 Monet alone is the great Structurist innovator for the 19th century. It is Cézanne who is the great Structurist innovator for the 20th century! Ibid. 77 The genuine Structurist is indifferent to the slick materials of industry. 1959― in Structure 2nd Ser. i. 16/1 Artists no longer found their art but only their method of art, not in the creations but only in the creative method of nature's structural process. I call this the Structurist direction of art. 1960Guardian 2 Feb. 7/5 The post-cubist collage-makers and other pioneer abstract ‘structurists’. 1967Times 17 Mar. 12/5 The trustees [of the Tate Gallery] have also recently acquired ‘Structurist Relief. Red Wing No. 20’ 1954–65, by Charles Biederman. Ibid. Biederman's ‘structurist’ work developed from a study of Mondrian. 1970Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 Oct. 54 He and others ‘in curriculum development and teacher training have been guilty for years of structuring canvases and of choosing the brushes and paints’. And yet how many structurists are willing to abandon that on which they depend? 1976J. van der Marck in Charles Biederman (Minneapolis Inst. Arts) 64 That gradual development, from the simple to the complex, which is a tenet of the Structurist philosophy. |