cubist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an artist who works in the style of cubism

   The cubist showed the face from several viewpoints at once.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to cubism or characterized by its fragmented geometric forms and multiple viewpoints

   The gallery acquired a cubist portrait from 1912.

Formed from cube and -ist after French cubiste. The term arose in the early twentieth century for artists associated with Cubism, whose works often break subjects into geometric forms and show multiple viewpoints.

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