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Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.
Jacques Lipchitz

Meaning of "cubism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CUBISM

cubism  [ˈkjuːbɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUBISM

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Cubism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CUBISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris during the 1910s and extending through the 1920s. Variants such as Futurism and Constructivism developed in other countries. A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne, which were displayed in a retrospective at the 1907 Salon d'Automne. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Definition of cubism in the English dictionary

The definition of cubism in the dictionary is a French school of painting, collage, relief, and sculpture initiated in 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which amalgamated viewpoints of natural forms into a multifaceted surface of geometrical planes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUBISM


abysm
əˈbɪzəm
Babism
ˈbɑːbɪzəm
cambism
ˈkæmbɪzəm
clubbism
ˈklʌbɪzəm
disyllabism
daɪˈsɪləˌbɪzəm
Hobbism
ˈhɒbɪzəm
mobbism
ˈmɒbɪzəm
monosyllabism
ˌmɒnəʊˈsɪləbɪzəm
nabobism
ˈneɪbɒbɪzəm
Pan-Arabism
ˈærəˌbɪzəm
phobism
ˈfəʊbɪzəm
plumbism
ˈplʌmˌbɪzəm
polysyllabism
ˌpɒlɪˈsɪləbɪzəm
scribism
ˈskraɪbɪzəm
snobbism
ˈsnɒbɪzəm
strabism
ˈstreɪbɪzəm
syllabism
ˈsɪləˌbɪzəm
Wahabism
wəˈhɑːbɪzəm
Wahhabism
wəˈhɑːbɪzəm
yobbism
ˈjɒbɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUBISM

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cubic capacity
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cubicalness
cubicity
cubicle
cubicly
cubicula
cubiculum
cubiform
Cubist
cubistic
cubistically
cubit
cubital
cubiti
cubitus

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUBISM

activism
autism
Buddhism
capitalism
criticism
feminism
hedonism
ism
journalism
Judaism
mechanism
metabolism
militarism
organism
prism
professionalism
racism
realism
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Synonyms and antonyms of cubism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cubism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUBISM

Find out the translation of cubism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cubism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cubism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

立体主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cubismo
570 millions of speakers

English

cubism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्यूबिज्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التكعيبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кубизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cubismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিল্পের ধারাবিষেশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cubisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kubisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kubismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キュービズム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

입체파
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cubism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phái lập thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிபிச்ம்கிபிசம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्यूबिज्म
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kübizm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cubismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kubizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кубізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cubism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυβισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kubisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cubism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kubisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cubism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUBISM»

The term «cubism» is regularly used and occupies the 55.764 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUBISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cubism

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4 QUOTES WITH «CUBISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cubism.
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J. G. Ballard
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
2
Harrison Birtwistle
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
3
Brad Holland
Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
4
Jacques Lipchitz
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUBISM»

Discover the use of cubism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cubism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cubism
This is an introduction to cubism, the movement often seen as the single mostmportant development in the history of 20th-century art.
Neil Cox, 2000
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Cubism
Discusses Cubism in art and the artists who used the Cubist style.
Shannon Robinson, 2006
3
Cubism and Its Histories
This work combines analysis of the different 'gallery' and 'salon' axes of the pre-1914 movement with an exploration of the experience of modernity in early twentieth-century Paris.
David Cottington, 2004
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Cubism
As you'll find out in this guide to the fundamentals of cubism, there is more to the genre than its most famous proponent.
Anne Ganteführer-Trier, Uta Grosenick, 2004
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Cubism and Fashion
This book shows how the fundamental traits of Cubism were translated into fashion.
Richard Harrison Martin, 1998
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Architecture and Cubism
Together, these essays show that although there were many points of intersection—historical, metaphorical, theoretical, and ideological—between cubism and architecture, there was no simple, direct link between them.
Eve Blau, Nancy J. Troy, 2002
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Cubism & Australian Art
Cubism and Australian Art examines for the first time the impact of this transformative art movement on the work of Australian artists, from the early 1920s to the present day.
Lesley Harding, Sue Cramer, 2009
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Cubism
Cubism was one of the most influential movements in Western art this century.
Philip Cooper, 1995
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Cubism
Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, driven by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world, in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists.
Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert, Anatoli Podoksik, 2010
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Cubism
This book, dedicated to cubism and written by one of the leading art historians of the world, showcases over 150 full-coloured illustrations on cubism - one of the richest periods in modern art.
Pierre Cabanne, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUBISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cubism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Only Watch 2015
The Classic Fusion Only Watch Britto combines the traditional art of enamelling with the contemporary pop art and cubism of Brazilian artist ... «World Tempus, Jul 15»
2
In a triumph, Modigliani's work together in one place
They were active in Paris, in particular the Montparnasse area, but did not belong to any specific movement such as Cubism or Fauvism. «Korea JoongAng Daily, Jul 15»
3
Hanging out with Picasso
... of wood, the interiors clearly expressed the intention of a classic appeal; an arrangement relating to Picasso's strokes of cubism and collage. «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
4
Huntington exhibit spotlights period of British artwork
The modest grouping shows artists who were enthralled by Continental styles — specifically, Cubism and Italian Futurism. Young men were on ... «Glendale News Press, Jul 15»
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Understated wit, wallpaper and words | Visual art round-up
... with a lively inventiveness that recalls Picasso and Braque in the heyday of cubism. The paintings are also replete with references to internal ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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Why the Best Film about Pablo Picasso Is a Graphic Novel
Nothing is sacred here, even Picasso and “all surface” Cubism. The comedy continues as the Spanish-speaking Picasso struggles to learn French while ... «Big Think, Jul 15»
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Faith Ringgold's Latest Children's Book Celebrates 1920s Harlem
... 1960s and '70s responded to the civil rights and feminist movements with provocative images influenced by Cubism and African sculpture. «Culture Type, Jul 15»
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Reflection: 'Senufo,' at St. Louis Art Museum, shows the wellspring of …
It is held up to us as the wellspring of Cubism, and certainly Picasso's painting had fundamentally generative power and was the talk of Paris's ... «St. Louis Public Radio, Jul 15»
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Song Of The Sea: how an animated treat was made
When photography came in, painters had to reinvent themselves. They invented expressionism, impressionism and cubism and everything else ... «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
10
Extensive fictionalreworking of Fitzgerald era
We gain a sense of upper-middle-class antics in interwar Europe; of creations in the world of art; of the emerging Ballets Russes, Cubism, and ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»

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