cub|ism

cub|ism
cub|ism «KYOO bihz uhm», noun.
a style of painting, drawing, and sculpture, developed in the early 1900's, in which objects are represented by cubes and other geometrical forms rather than by realistic details: »

Picasso…said that…“Cubism is no different from any other school of painting…it is an art dealing primarily with forms” (New Yorker).


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