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Cubism

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Noun
  1. 1
    An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. capitalized, countable, often, uncountable

    "Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke."

  2. 2
    an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes wordnet

Etymology

From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term. See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos)).

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