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cubism

cubism

3 7.5
An early 1900s art style that shows people and objects as flat shapes like cubes and triangles
  • noun
  • /ˈkjuːbɪzəm/
translation icon : cubismo
  • One of the ambitions of the artistic movement of cubism was to present an object simultaneously from various angles.
  • the aesthetics of cubism
  • Analytic Cubism
  • Synthetic Cubism

And so then we get all this impressionism, expressionism, Cubism.

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Examples

  • In the last decade, photography has fallen under the influence of the latest trends in art: Cubism.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Picasso left behind the work of his "Blue Period" to start painting what would later be called Cubism.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • His photographs of African objects, particularly those that feature multiple exposures, are reminiscent of Cubism.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Cubism shatters the complacencies of vision only to offer us the jagged sightlines of competing perspectives.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The art exhibition featured several striking works of cubism, showcasing objects from multiple perspectives.

  • Many famous artists, including Pablo Picasso, are associated with the revolutionary movement known as cubism.

  • Cubism transformed the way artists represented reality by using geometric shapes and fragmented forms.

Compounds

An early painting style that shows objects as flat geometric shapes and uses soft colors

synthetic cubism
  • Specialized
9.6

A later painting style with simple shapes, bright colors, and glued paper pieces

How Abstract

nonrepresentational
  • Specialized
1 8.9
abstract art
3 3.9
cubism
3 7.5
realism
12 6.1

Surface Forms

cubism singular
cubisms plural

Morphology

cubism = cubist (semi-transparent) = cube + ism

Formed from the adjective 'cubist' + '-ism'; while the relation to 'cube' is detectable, the specific meaning 'an art movement' is a specialized nominalization that not all learners will fully derive.

Etymology

Cubism comes from cube, which means 'a box' or 'a square block'. Artists used box-like shapes and flat planes to show many sides of an object at once, so the name fits the movement's style.