Definition of "cubism" [cu•bism]

• A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes. (noun)

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• "And yet, though cubism is more like how we actually use our eyes to look at things, it can present a rather nightmare vision of the world."
• "Finally, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Georges Braque (1882–1963) contributed to a new school, known as cubism, between 1909 and 1914."
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