Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Painting) A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below).
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- noun often capitalized An
artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction ofnatural forms asgeometric structures ofplanes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And yet, though cubism is more like how we actually use our eyes to look at things, it can present a rather nightmare vision of the world.
Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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And yet, though cubism is more like how we actually use our eyes to look at things, it can present a rather nightmare vision of the world.
Borges: Pathways of the (Postmodern) Mind Heather McDougal 2009
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Finally, Pablo Picasso (18811973) and Georges Braque (18821963) contributed to a new school, known as cubism, between 1909 and 1914.
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But now someone draws squares and its called cubism which according to Wikipedia means "a
Museum Blogs 2009
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He was the hitchhiker in a work of art called "The Steering Wheel," using cubism, which is a number of pictures that make up a total unit of a picture.
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"She's a big fan of cubism, which is very interesting," Anderson explains.
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Her remarkable offerings are influenced by modern movements in Art such as cubism, futurism, and constructivism.
Zaha Hadid…architect with Vision! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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If the chairman of the department, however, should confine himself to the modern movements such as cubism, surrealism, abstractionism and all the rest and to regard as outdated and of no consequence the work of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Raphael, Da
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"cubism", which modified the images of his subjects to fit geometric shapes.
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"cubism", which modified the images of his subjects to fit geometric shapes.
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