- (often capital)
a French school of painting, collage, relief, and sculpture initiated in 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which amalgamated viewpoints of natural forms into a multifaceted surface of geometrical planes
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cub•ism /ˈkyubɪzəm/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable* sometimes: Cubism]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Fine Arta style of painting and sculpture in which natural forms are made to look like geometrical figures or lines.
cub•ism
(kyo̅o̅′biz əm),USA pronunciation n. (sometimes cap.) [Fine Arts.]
cub′ist, n.
cub•is′tic, adj.
- Fine Arta 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.
- French cubisme (1908); see cube1, -ism
cub•is′tic, adj.
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