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Definition: cubism from Collins English Dictionary

n

1 (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

› ˈcubist adj, n

› cuˈbistic adj

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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Revolutionary style of painting created by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in Paris between 1907 and 1914. It was the most radical of the developments that revolutionized art in the years of unprecedented experimentation leading up to World War I, and it changed the course of painting by introducing a new way of seeing and depicting the world. To the cubists, a painting was first and foremost a flat object that existed in its own right, rather than a kind of window through which a representation of the world is seen. Cubism also had a marked, though less fundamental, effect on sculpture, and even influenced architecture and the decorative arts. Cubism was a complex, gradually evolving phenomenon, but in essence it involved abandoning the single fixed viewpoint that had been the norm in European painting since the Renaissance and instead depicting several different aspects of an object simultaneously. Objects were therefore shown as they are known to be, rather than as they happen to…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
While narrowly defined as a school in the visual arts led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris (ca. 1907–25), cubism may well be the most important aesthetic development in the 20th c., influencing not only painting and sculpture, but cinematography, architecture, and literature as well. In…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Revolutionary, 20th-century art movement. It originated in c .1907 when Picasso and Braque began working together to develop ideas for changing the scope of painting. Abandoning traditional methods of creating pictures with one-point perspective , they built up three-dimensional images on the canvas…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The style of an early 20th-century school of painters who depicted surfaces, figures, tints, light and shade, and so on, by means of a multiplicity of shapes of a cubical and geometrical character. The name was introduced in 1908 by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles, who took up a remark…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907. Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. Among the specific elements abandoned by the cubists were the sensual appeal of paint texture and color, subject matter with emotional charge or…
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
One of the most important movements in modernist art, Cubism was born in France in 1908–9 by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, in part under the influence of the later work of their revered POST-IMPRESSIONIST Paul Cézanne, who had died in 1906. We owe the movement's imprecise name to the critic…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Revolutionary style of painting created by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in Paris between 1907 and 1914. It was the most radical of the developments that revolutionized art in the years of unprecedented experimentation leading up to World War I, and it changed the course of painting by…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(c. 1907–21) Cubism was the creation of the painters Georges Braque (1882–1963) and PABLO PICASSO, working separately in Paris around 1907. Art historians customarily divide its subsequent development into two periods: Analytic Cubism (1907–12) and Synthetic Cubism (1912–21). The SIGNATURE of Cubism…
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From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
A school in the visual arts led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris, ca. 1907—25, which, in part as a reaction against impressionism, stressed the geometrical forms conceived to be inherent in the objects it represented—hence, "les petites cubes," which irritated Henri Matisse but which…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Movement in the visual arts created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. They were later joined by Juan Gris , Fernand Léger , Robert Delaunay , and others. The name derives from a review that described Braque’s work as images composed of cubes. Picasso’s Demoiselles…
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From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
Was a short-lived but important design movement in the years immediately preceding World War I. It was centred around the Skupina Vytvarych Umelcu (Group of Creative Artists), which was established in Prague in 1911. The Group founded its own magazine, Umelecky Mesicnik (Artistic Monthly), in which…
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