cubist
Americanadjective
noun
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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."
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The now 91-year-old spoke to WSJ about posing for the cubist, why she sat in a rocking chair during their time together and how her life changed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the 1980s Hockney invented a kind of photo collage he dubbed "joiners" that used slightly different images to produce a patchwork akin to the cubist painting of his hero Pablo Picasso.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess hurls tater tots and two competitive dorks played by Jack Black and Jason Momoa into the cubist, mega-popular video game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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
All the cubist stuff was gimmicky, as far as she was concerned.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
The cubists and the followers of the old masters paint at the same time.
From The Career of Leonard Wood by Sears, Joseph Hamblen
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