cubism

Meanings

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   noun

   An early 20th-century art style that shows objects as sets of flat geometric shapes.

   Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism.

From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term. See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos)).

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