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@pajamas
well first off it's a bit tongue in cheek to get us started - but previous meaning shouldn't necessarily encroach on meaning here. For a start, the history of the bicycle doesn't stretch back as far as most art, nor are the terms robust. For example, I could see Sano's new frame as an example, perhaps, of structuralism - in that (if I've got it right) it has stripped and allowed to oxidise a little, then clearcoated - but I wouldn't call the bike that as it's a low pro and a trick bike with a hint of stealth too and maybe Sano has ideas about what aesthetic he was going for himself...
we could call the coffee and cream bike above an exercise in postmodernism but it wouldn't be necessarily explain the owner's intentions nor would it be a succinct and catch-all term...