Definitions for cubisms

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cubisms cub·ism

Spelling: [kyoo-biz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈkyu bɪz əm/

Cubisms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in cubisms (bcimssu).

Definitions for cubisms

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 cubisms

French cubisme (1908); see cube¹, -ism

Examples for cubisms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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