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cubism
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cub·ism
/ ˈkyoōˌbizəm/
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n.
an early 20th-century style and movement in art, esp. painting, in which use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
DERIVATIVES:
cub·ist
n. & adj.
cub·is·tic
/ kyoōˈbistik/ adj.
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"Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936". (Exhibition notes).(Hollis Taggert Galleries, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; "Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936," at Hollis Taggert Galleries...Taggert's Associate Director of Modernism, "Inheriting Cubism" traced the burgeoning styles of modernism, which were touched...
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Is Cubism's Revolution Behind Us?; If You Think Picasso's Work Didn't Last, Keep Looking
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...first told you the picture's subject. Cubism didn't just change what pictures after...t water what's downstream? Compare cubism to the other crucial rupture in Western...every image made today. Whereas with cubism, it looks like the best that we can do...
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Cubism? This Tate; The Arts.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 5/21/2004; 700+ words
; ...to mount an exhibition with the title Cubism and its Legacy, my eyes widened with...his wilder excesses, Leger edging from Cubism to Tubism, Juan Gris on the sidelines...s greatest exhibitions, The Essential Cubism of 1983? Twenty-one years on, it is...
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Crossing cultures with Cubism.(High School Studio Lesson)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The study of Cubism is an excellent approach to influence...students with artworks of a diverse time. Cubism not only changed the existing art society...future cultures as well. In itself, Cubism is synonymous with diversity; from its...
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On Cubism: Painting under the knife Art
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...01-04-2006 What was so wild about Cubism? Here's what: It took the soulful...of clattering planes in empty space.Cubism, at least at first, did other things...smallish exhibition titled ''Facets of Cubism'' at the Museum of Fine Arts here through...
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Discovering the many facets of Cubism
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary age. Forget the old notions about Cubism as a rarefied trend confined to a small...de Beaune until Jan. 27, shows that Cubism swept across Europe. There were Swedish...Berlin, Adrian-Nilsson discovered French Cubism and Italian Futurism. ''Sailors in...
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A Cubism Primer
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/23/2007; 581 words
; What is cubism? It isn't. It isn't, that is...out or even tie it down. At best, "cubism" describes a loose approach to picturemaking...varied. The so-called "analytic" cubism of around 1910 avoided all color except...
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Cubism: Forever Rooted in the Abstract
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/31/2003; 587 words
; The thing about cubism is that no one really knows just what...denied that there was such a movement as "cubism," or that he had ever been its leader...demands the loosest of definitions -- cubism refers to a style of art, practiced especially...
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FIRM PROFILE: Cubism Law.
Magazine article from: The Lawyer; 6/15/2009; 643 words
; ...partner Andrew Pena, the man behind Cubism Law. "There's great potential with...partnerships - is attractive to clients." At Cubism the business model is the thing. What...firm is, in fact, nothing of the sort. Cubism is a limited company that recruits senior...
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Learning art history through interpretation and investigation. (cubism lessons)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...successful endeavor. Art History I chose Cubism for our first area of study as it has...concept of space and the two main phases of Cubism were introduced to the students to begin...Reality in Life In the later state of Cubism, Cubists used everyday, disposable materials...
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cubism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cubism art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907. Cubist Theory Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against...transparent planes. Analytic and Synthetic Cubism In the analytic phase (1907-12) the...
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Cubism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Cubism A term describing a revolutionary style...arts and occasionally in architecture. Cubism was a complex phenomenon, but in essence...influential, and John Golding has described Cubism as ‘perhaps the most important...
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Analytical Cubism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Analytical Cubism. See Cubism .
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Hermetic Cubism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Hermetic Cubism. See CUBISM .
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Synthetic Cubism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Synthetic Cubism. See CUBISM .
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