cubism

noun

cub·​ism ˈkyü-ˌbi-zəm How to pronounce cubism (audio)
often capitalized
: a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects
cubist noun or adjective often capitalized
cubistic adjective

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Notable modernists include Virginia Woolf (stream-of-consciousness novels), Pablo Picasso (cubism), Arnold Schoenberg (twelve-tone technique), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (International Style architecture). Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024 America’s great indigenous art had evolved from the exuberant transgressions of the 1920s to the danceable rhythms of the swing era to the prickly cubism of bebop. James Kaplan, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024 Sherman sees the disjunctions in her new work’s faces almost as an exercise in cubism. Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024 And no, in 1906, Picasso hadn’t yet invented (with Georges Braque) the revolutionary pictorial language known as cubism. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cubism 

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First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of cubism was in 1911

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“Cubism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cubism. Accessed 14 Dec. 2024.

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cubism

noun
cub·​ism ˈkyü-ˌbiz-əm How to pronounce cubism (audio)
: a style of art in which natural forms are broken up into geometric shapes (as squares, triangles, or circles)
cubist adjective or noun

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