post-Cubistadj.n.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈkjuːbɪst/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈkjubəst/ Art.
A. adj.
Following on from or developing out of Cubism.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > Cubist, etc.
Cubist1911
post-Cubist1914
cubistic1915
proto-Cubist1931
1914 E. F. Carritt Theory of Beauty viii. 205 To ask in face of a work of art whether it is a religious painting or a portrait, a problem play or a melodrama, post-cubist or pre-futurist, is as ingenuous a confession of æsthetic bankruptcy as to demand its title or its subject.
1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 147 Imitations of..Post-Cubist art are not confined to actual works of painting.
1959 H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting v. 147 His post-Cubist development cannot be dissociated from the typical manifestations of Surrealism.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Feb. 22/3 It underpins so much of Picasso's post-Cubist imagery.
B. n.
A painter who works in a style which follows on from or develops out of Cubism.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > Cubism, etc. > artist
Cubist1911
post-Cubist1937
1914 Frederick (Maryland) Post 27 Feb. 4/3 It is as hard to comprehend if you are unused to the ways of the marionettes, as the productions of the post Cubists.
1921 Times p. xiv/3 This is wonderfully well perceived by those whom I call the post-cubists—painters like MM. Luc-Albert, Moreau, [etc.].
1937 Burlington Mag. Dec. p. xx/1 Cubists and Post-Cubists.
1950 Jrnl. Philos. 47 31 Precisely the problem the post-cubists were struggling with was how to rediscover in their time the means of achieving artistic truth which would be more than literal representation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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