English

Alternative spellings
Cubism

Etymology
From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braques was being carried past, someone said, �Encore des Cubes! assez de cubisme!�. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse.

See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from AGr. polytonic|κ�βο� (kybos))

Noun
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1. context|often|capitalized An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.

Quotations
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.

Related terms
cubist
cubistic
cubistically

Translations

Afrikaans: kubisme
Bosnian: t-|bs|kubizam|m
Bulgarian: к�биз�м (kubizum)
Catalan: cubisme
Croatian: t-|hr|kubizam|m
Czech: kubismus
Danish: kubismen
Dutch: kubisme
Esperanto: kubismo
Estonian: t-|et|kubism
Finnish: t-|fi|kubismi
French: t+|fr|cubisme
German: t-|de|Kubismus
Greek: t+|el|κ�βι�μ��|m|trkyvismos|scGrek
Hebrew: ק����� (qubizm)
Hungarian: kubizmus
Ido: kubismo
Italian: t+|it|cubismo|m
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Japanese: ����� (kyubisumu)
Korean: �체� (ipchepa); ��� (kyubijeum)
Latin: cubismus m
Polish: t-|pl|kubizm
Portuguese: t-|pt|cubismo|m
Romanian: t-|ro|cubism|n
Russian: к�бизм m (kubizm)
Slovak: kubizmus
Slovenian: kubizem
Spanish: t-|es|cubismo|m
Swedish: t+|sv|kubism
Tamil: �ிய�பி�ம�
Turkish: kübizm
Ukrainian: к�б�зм (kubizm)
Vietnamese: lập th�

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Noun
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1. Cubism

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