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Marquez said the painting was inspired by master cubists like Pablo Picasso and his masterpiece “Guernica,” which depicted a town in rubble after it was bombed during the Spanish Civil War.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021

When he holds forth on how his generation murdered the cubists, he is just describing the natural course of progenitors and their offspring.

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

Most of his compositions retain a bit more spatial realism than the other cubists, but their wealth of materials, such as wallpapers pasted one of top of the other, fractures any pictorial unity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2014

But there were protests from the other cubists, who had formed a little cult around Picasso and Braque, and in the end Duchamp’s own brothers, artists both, forced him to take it down.

From Washington Post

Denizens of these regions, I take it, are the models for some of our cubists and futurists.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth