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Cubism|ˈkjuːbɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. cubisme, f. cube cube n.]
An important early twentieth-century revolutionary pictorial movement arising out of the rejection of traditional Western single-viewpoint perspective: in its first ‘analytical’ stages characterized by simple geometric forms which soon gave way to further complexes of interlocking semi-transparent planes. In its second major or ‘synthetic’ phase, flat abstract coloured shapes were assembled and clarified in such a way as to achieve a revisionary significance. Hence ˈCubist [F. cubiste], an artist who adopts one of the styles of Cubism; also attrib. and as adj. Also cuˈbistic a., cuˈbistically adv.
‘The word ‘Cubism’..dates from 1908 and was pronounced for the first time, according to M. Léonce Rosenberg, by a member of the Hanging Committee of the Salon des Indépendants. As a canvas by Georges Braque was being carried by, this person exclaimed, ‘Encore des Cubes! assez de cubisme!’ A journalist seized on the mot and spread it abroad, and the painter concerned, together with his associates, accepted the nickname and confessed themselves Cubists’ (Rutter Evol. Mod. Art 80).
1911Illustr. Lond. News 21 Oct. 648/1 Paris is perturbed by the Cubism and the Cubists of the Salon d'Automne. 1911Lit. Digest (N.Y.) 18 Nov. 914/1 The cubists take the blocks of the pavement as their medium for interpreting the external world. 1913tr. Gleizes & Metzinger's Cubism 16 To understand Cézanne is to foresee Cubism. 1914A. J. Eddy Cubists & Post-Impress. 72 Cubism is simply a systematic use of planes. 1915W. H. Wright Mod. Painting 187 Those whose criterion is prettiness are naturally attracted to Whistlerian and Cubistic modes. 1917W. J. Locke Red Planet x. 113 All their talk was of Hauptmann and Sudermann..and in art—Heaven save the mark—the Cubist school. 1920R. Fry Vision & Design 186 It is interesting to consider his Cubist period, since Marchand's reaction to Cubism is typical of his nature. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ii. 133 [Painter to model] ‘No, I shouldn't be treating you cubistically.’ 1928― Swan Song iii. xiii. 317, I remember the first shows in London of those post-impressionists and early Cubist chaps. 1936A. H. Barr Cubism & Abstract Art 30 Cubism in the early days developed under the mixed influence of Negro Sculpture and Cézanne. 1948[see abstraction 7]. 1966J. Griffin tr. Fry's Cubism 9 Cubism first posed, in works of the highest artistic quality, many of the fundamental questions that were to preoccupy artists during the first half of the twentieth century. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 293/2 Part of the object of the Cubists was to represent solidity and volume in a two-dimensional plane. Ibid., Cubism is the outcome of intellectualized rather than spontaneous vision.
transf.1914A. J. Eddy Cubists & Post-Impress. 64 A form of dramatic representation that is essentially Cubist, Futurist, and Orphist in its expression. 1920A. Huxley Let. 4 Mar. (1969) 182 Paris shd be amusing: I was there in January and had an entertaining time among the cubists of literature. 1926W. J. Locke Old Bridge vi. 91 The..German tourist and his cubistically attired wife. 1927W. S. Vines Movements 3 Mr. Blunden is a case in point, this critic claiming him for the Georgians, while that one will allege that cubistic symptoms have characterised, if not marred, his later work. 1927Observer 6 Mar. 21/3 A few [ladies' coats] display cubistic ideas, amusing to study in detail. |