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An artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
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cubism
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Picasso and Braques were the pioneers of cubism . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Enright practises an emotional cubism , using her characters to piece together the world in strange combinations with sharp little sentences. ▪ For ...
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n. (context often capitalized English) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
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n. an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
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This was a time of radical new art movements in the West, ranging from Expressionism to Fauvism and Cubism, end Japanese artists returning from study in France and elsewhere in Europe duly introduced each movement to their country, though not necessarily in any coherent order.
This is what I think art in the 20th century has unconsciously been striving for, ever since jazz and cubism and throughout the evolution of 12-tone row, abstract expressionism, rock'n'roll, pop-up virtual reality -- all of these schools of art and technological innovations in the art-making process are setting us up to be able to see what we mean at some point in the future.
The difference between looking at your beloved through a dry martini straight up, where the glass is small, thin, and looking at her through a martini on the rocks, through thick- glass, and her face broken by the transparent cubism of the ice.
Working in a slightly different area, people like Picasso journey to Africa and return to Paris with the masks of tribal peoples which then begin to feed into the theories of analytical and synthetic cubism.