Definitions for Cubism

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Cubism cub·ism

Spelling: [kyoo-biz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈkyu bɪz əm/

Cubism is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Cubism (bcimsu).

Definitions for Cubism

noun

1. a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.

Origin of Cubism

French cubisme (1908); see cube¹, -ism

Examples for Cubism

These scholastic men were incorporating spots and bright colours into their school-room drawings when cubism came forward.

Lately he has moved away from cubism, but has not become less doctrinaire for that.

That is one reason why I cannot think that there is any great future for cubism.

In art history, their achievement rivaled the invention of cubism.

Drive this argument a little further and we arrive at cubism and Futurism.

For the French have never loved cubism, though Braque uses it beautifully.

Then the writer reverted to art again and published a book on cubism and one on cubism and Futurism.

Instead, we get predictable gallery delineations (Blue Period, Rose Period, cubism) and surface-skimming biographical details.

Whatever its extravagance, cubism remains a form of graphic art.

Weirdly, he mostly avoided cubism, even though he got wild Cezannes that foreshadow that movement.