synthetic cubism

American  

noun

(sometimes initial capital letters)

1. the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.

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• analytical cubism vs. synthetic cubism

Example Sentences

With its attention to visual trickery, “Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition” concentrates mostly on Cubism’s second, more percussive stage, usually referred to as Synthetic Cubism.

From New York Times

For a while now I’ve believed that Cubism — specifically the later Synthetic Cubism, which slashed and sutured printed matter and found objects into a whole new kind of image — offers an invaluable example to artists today, floundering in an unstoppable stream of image and information.

From New York Times

Dodge’s paintings also take you back to what Picasso and Braque were doing from 1912-14, when they invented Synthetic Cubism to reassemble the pictorial space they had deconstructed with Analytical Cubism.

From Los Angeles Times

His fragmented approach to the human figure is a realist riff on synthetic Cubism.

From The New Yorker

Several cunning works of synthetic Cubism, such as a still life with a bottle of Pernod from 1912, have been paired here with later, purely abstract works by the Russian avant-garde, like Lyubov Popova’s architectonic layerings of colored panes.

From New York Times