Maximalism
Deliberate accumulation: pattern on pattern, colour on colour, more held together on purpose rather than by accident.
- Also called
- None
- Seen in the wild
- Modern Maximalism
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- None
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- evidenceddesignround, read 21 Aug 2026
- Kind
- Market idiomA category the trade converged on, defined by resemblance to central cases and by nothing else. There is no manifesto to appeal to, and asking for necessary and sufficient conditions misunderstands it.
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- style.maximalism
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 21 Aug 2026maximalism, maximalist, Maximalist Style via vocab.getty.edu/sparql | none |