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  • noun art An artist who works in the style of Cubism.
  • adjective Of, or pertaining to Cubism.

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Examples

  • If you're thinking of writing a 400,000 word Cubist fantasy diptych that strip-mines the Jungian unconscious and has "people die" as it's core message, then you sure as hell better throw yourself into it, and you sure as hell better be sincere.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • If you're thinking of writing a 400,000 word Cubist fantasy diptych that strip-mines the Jungian unconscious and has "people die" as it's core message, then you sure as hell better throw yourself into it, and you sure as hell better be sincere.

    Magic 101 Hal Duncan 2006

  • A Cubist is a person who for reasons best known to the police has not been locked up yet, who asserts that all things in Nature, living and inanimate, properly resolve themselves into cubes.

    Cobb's Bill-of-Fare Peter Newell 1910

  • Maybe not: With a structure that can be described as Cubist, the film may lose the attention of lot of voters before the climax.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Maybe not: With a structure that can be described as Cubist, the film may lose the attention of lot of voters before the climax.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Maybe not: With a structure that can be described as Cubist, the film may lose the attention of lot of voters before the climax.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Maybe not: With a structure that can be described as Cubist, the film may lose the attention of lot of voters before the climax.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Maybe not: With a structure that can be described as Cubist, the film may lose the attention of lot of voters before the climax.

    Variety.com 2010

  • More from Masculin / Feminin: "This film might be described as Cubist cinema, or the visual equivalent of jazz improvisation; you have to make the shapes cohere, you have to follow the melody and see how it develops."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • The fragmentation and distortion of the motif is applied also to letters, recalling the Cubist and Futurist explorations of lettering and the programmatic claims of the Lettrists whom VilleglĂ© and Hains were close in the early 1950s.

    Art Knowledge News 2008

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