cubism

== English == === Alternative forms === Cubism === 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)). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkjuː.bɪz.əm/ === Noun === cubism (countable and uncountable, plural cubisms) (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. [from 1900s] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== cubist cubistic cubistically ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === cubism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cubisme. === Noun === cubism n (uncountable) cubism ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “cubism”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026