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  • adjective Alternative capitalization of Cubist
  • noun Alternative capitalization of Cubist

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  • noun an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism
  • adjective relating to or characteristic of cubism

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Examples

  • That is a most unfortunately placed thumbprint on the first 'cubist' cake.

    More Sponge Cake! Jen 2009

  • Private collector Theo Armour has recently started buying net. art, he says, because he senses the chance to participate in a new artistic development, similar to invention of important art forms such as cubist art.

    The Internet as Art 2009

  • Taken together, Mr. Spiegelman's essays amount to a kind of cubist memoir, catching the author from different angles.

    Ordinary Happiness 2009

  • The ending to the story bar the conclusion is told over twelve issues with a striking change in the illustration style: they are now drawn in a kind of cubist minimalism.

    Review: The Sandman by Neil Gaiman 2008

  • The ending to the story bar the conclusion is told over twelve issues with a striking change in the illustration style: they are now drawn in a kind of cubist minimalism.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • He is a cubist painter, you know; does the weirdest things and now has taken up a kind of cubist effect in sculpture; but you will see his things for yourself.

    Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895

  • Poem of the week: Weeping Woman by Grace Nichols time, a distinctly 'cubist' attempt to reclaim one of Picasso's muses as her own woman

    WN.com - Articles related to Rihanna rocks Abu Dhabi into 2010 as she performs in a scantily-clad outfit 2010

  • Poetry News: The sale spans Stein's literary career and includes first editions of her seminal early book of 'cubist' poetry 'Tender Buttons'.

    GotPoetry.com News 2010

  • On paper, Pelham would appear a good fit for the erratic Scott, whose style has morphed with time and technology into a kind of cubist barrage of image fragments.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2009

  • On paper, Pelham would appear a good fit for the erratic Scott, whose style has morphed with time and technology into a kind of cubist barrage of image fragments.

    NashvilleScene.com 2009

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  • (In Italian)

    un cubista (a male cubist) = a painter

    una cubista (a female cubist) = a disco dancer = a trollop

    (read description on my list before suing me)

    June 28, 2008