cubism (redirected from cubists)

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.

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cubist n.

cu·bistic adj.

cu·bisti·cal·ly adv.

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cubism

Noun

a style of art, begun in the early 20th century, in which objects are represented by geometrical shapes

cubist adjn

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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

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cubism - an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes art 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

Translations

cubism [ˈkjuːbɪzəm] n → cubismo