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–noun (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts.
a 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.
[Origin: < F cubisme (1908); see cube1, -ism]

—Related forms
cubist, noun
cub·is·tic, adjective
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cub·ism also Cub·ism    Audio Help   (kyōō'bĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.

cub'ist n., cu·bis'tic adj., cu·bis'ti·cal·ly adv.
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cubism

noun
an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes 

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cubism

A movement in modern art that emphasized the geometrical depiction of natural forms (see geometry). Pablo Picasso was one of the leading cubists.


[Chapter:] Fine Arts


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Cubism

Cu"bism\ (k[=u]"b[i^]z'm), n. (Painting) A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below). -- Cu"bist, n.
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