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cubistic

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cub·ism also Cub·ism  (kybzm)
n.
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.
cubist n.
cu·bistic adj.
cu·bisti·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.cubistic - relating to or characteristic of cubism; "cubist art"
cubist


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Following the scenario of Bronislava Nijinska's original ballet about a peasant wedding, Celis' work ``Noces'' expands the wedding from one couple to 12, as if depicting the opposing forces, male and female, through a cubistic prism.
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