• An early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.

  立体主义，立体派（20世纪初的一种艺术风格和流派，主要表现在绘画上；他们一反过去的透视画法，而仅仅使用简单的几何形状、相互连接的平面和后来的拼贴艺术）

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  • In cubism, geometrical forms and fragmentations are favored.
  • In music, atonality or the abandonment of rules of tonality, was the counterpart of cubism and surrealism in art and the functionalism of Bauhaus.
  • Consider the distinctive compositions of pop artist Romero Britto, whose brilliant colors and whimsical themes flirt with cubism but remain true to the artist's personal style.
  • By ‘Egyptian style’ Rousseau meant the elements of African tribal art that Picasso and other artists had assimilated when they developed the art movement known as cubism.
  • It's not pointillist, it's not cubism - it's just in-your-face, comic art.
  • It is quite different from the shattered fragments found in the analytic cubism of his contemporaries Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
  • Though the modern art movements of impressionism, cubism, expressionism and abstract art have influenced urban art, what we see is not a made-in-India version of Western art.
  • Picasso discovered cubism after seeing African masks, so the two artists share the same source of inspiration.
  • The early analytic cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque sought to capture the essence of subjects in ‘simultaneous vision’ by eliminating point of view, distance and lighting.
  • From this painting stemmed what we now know as analytical cubism, cubism's first phase.
  • Abbreviated from a 1925 Paris exhibition, art deco was a mix of cubism, art nouveau and Russian ballet, with a fondness for strident colours and geometric lines.
  • A distinctive style of cubism combined with surrealism are what makes his paintings stand out from the crowd.
  • The influence of the French avant-garde movements - surrealism, cubism, and so forth - is quite marked.
  • Elements of surrealism and cubism, influences of the European avant-garde art movements of high modernism are all in evidence in this striking poem.
  • Apparent in her paintings are the influence of cubism, which employs geometric structure, and surrealism, and which uses fictional, sometimes abstract, subjects.
  • Later, the Jamaican artists began to incorporate artist movements like abstraction, impressionism and cubism into their works.
  • Analytical cubism is generally considered the early phase of cubism.
  • For several years to come they were to explore together the possibilities of cubism.
  • Avoiding the influence of Picasso's cubism in any form, O'Keeffe epitomized the independence of the American avant-garde.
  • Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.

Cubism was a reaction against traditional modes of representation and impressionist concerns with light and colour. The style, created by Picasso and Braque and first named by the French critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1908, was inspired by the later work of Cézanne and by African sculpture