cubism
Plural: cubisms
Noun
- An early 20th-century art movement using geometric forms and multiple perspectives.
- an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
- An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
Examples
- His strategy, much like CUBISM, deconstructed words into their component letters for new plays.
Origin / 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)).
Scrabble Score: 12
cubism: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcubism: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cubism: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
cubism: valid Words With Friends Word