Cubism
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈkjuËb.izÉ™m/
Alternative forms
Origin
From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by George Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des Cubes! assez de cubisme!â€. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to .
See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κÏβος).
Noun
cubism
(uncountable)- (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
- 2003, The New Yorker, 3 March,Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke.
- 2005, The New Yorker, 29 Aug, p. 78,A few recall that, in 1908, he Matisse inspired the coinage of the term “cubism,†in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse his leading influence on the Parisian avant-garde.