cubist

American  

[kyoo-bist] / ˈkyu bɪst /

adjective

1. Art. using or produced according to the style and conventions of cubism.

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noun

1. Art. an artist who uses the style and conventions of cubism.

Explanation

A cubist is an artist who transforms natural shapes into exaggerated geometric ones. Pablo Picasso is the most famous of all cubist painters. Starting in the early 20th century, the art movement known as cubism began in Western Europe. Cubists attempted to show many perspectives at once in their work by breaking down their subjects into sections and then representing them as small, flat blocks. Cubist comes from cubism, which was coined after a French art critic dismissed their "bizarreries cubiques," or "cubic oddities."

Example Sentences

Their foe, in true “Minecraft” fashion, is a blocky baby zombie riding a cubist chicken: a “chicken jockey,” as Black’s Steve properly notes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

The painting also shows the early signs of Husain's modified cubist style - where geometric shapes and bold lines stood out in his works.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

This historic cubist space in the south of France, once graced by luminaries like Buñuel, Man Ray, Dali —and also Karl Lagerfeld — has for more than a century been a beacon for art.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2023

Georges Braque’s 1929 “The Round Table,” a cubist still life, is also an oil, but one in which sand was distinctively worked into the paint.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023

I did it cubist so his face looks even more like it’s in a smashed mirror.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson