cubism
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Definitions
n.
An early-20th-century art movement that depicts subjects as fragmented geometric shapes, often showing multiple viewpoints at once.
立体主义：20 世纪初的艺术流派，把对象表现为破碎的几何形状，常同时呈现多个视角。
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedcube + -ism (art movement) = "the cube style." The name began as a critic's jibe that Picasso and Braque reduced everything to little cubes; the insult became the movement's proud title.
Root kub still carries 3 more wordsCommon Collocations
- 1.analytic cubism分析立体主义
- 2.synthetic cubism综合立体主义
- 3.influenced by cubism受立体主义影响
Example Sentences
- 1.
Cubism changed how artists thought about perspective.
- 2.
Picasso and Braque pioneered cubism in the early 1900s.