cub·ism also Cub·ism (ky  b z  m)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. cub ist n.cu·bis tic adj.cu·bis ti·cal·ly adv. |
cubism [ˈkjuːbɪzəm]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) (often capital) a French school of painting, collage, relief, and sculpture initiated in 1907 by Pablo Picasso, the Spanish painter and sculptor (1881-1973) and Georges Braque, the French painter (1882-1963), which amalgamated viewpoints of natural forms into a multifaceted surface of geometrical planes
cubist adj & n
cubistic adj
cubistically adv
Cubism
a movement in 20th-century painting in which several planes of an object in the form of cubes or other solids are presented in an arbitrary arrangement using a narrow range of colors or monochrome. — Cubist, n. — Cubistic, adj.
See also: Art
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| Noun | 1. |  cubism - an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planesart movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles analytical cubism - the early phase of cubism synthetic cubism - the late phase of cubism cubist - an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism |
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