cubism

English

Alternative forms

• Cubism

Etymology

From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term.

See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuː.bɪz.əm/

Noun

cubism (countable and uncountable, plural cubisms)

1. (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. [from 1900s]
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 3 March,

     Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke.

   • 2005, The New Yorker, 29 Aug, p. 78,

     A few recall that, in 1908, he [Matisse] inspired the coinage of the term “cubism,” in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse his leading influence on the Parisian avant-garde.

Related terms

• cubist
• cubistic
• cubistically

Translations

An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes

• Afrikaans: kubisme
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կուբիզմ (hy) (kubizm)
• Asturian: cubismu m
• Bulgarian: куби́зъм m (kubízǎm)
• Catalan: cubisme
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立體主義／立体主义 (zh) (lìtǐzhǔyì), 立体主义 (zh) (lìtǐzhǔyì)

• Czech: kubismus m
• Danish: kubisme c
• Dutch: kubisme (nl)
• Esperanto: kubismo
• Estonian: kubism
• Finnish: kubismi (fi)
• French: cubisme (fr) m
• Galician: cubismo m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kubismus (de) m
• Greek: κυβισμός (el) m (kyvismós)
• Hebrew: קוביזם (he) (qubizm)
• Hungarian: kubizmus (hu)
• Ido: kubismo
• Irish: ciúbachas m
• Italian: cubismo (it) m
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• Japanese: キュビズム (kyubizumu)
• Kazakh: кубшылдық (kubşyldyq)
• Korean: 입체파 (ipchepa), 큐비즘 (kyubijeum)
• Latin: cubismus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kubisme m

  Nynorsk: kubisme m

• Polish: kubizm (pl)
• Portuguese: cubismo (pt) m
• Romanian: cubism (ro) n
• Russian: куби́зм (ru) m (kubízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кубизам m

  Roman: kubizam (sh) m

• Slovak: kubizmus (sk) m
• Slovene: kubizem m
• Spanish: cubismo m
• Swedish: kubism (sv)
• Tamil: கியூபிசம் (kiyūpicam)
• Thai: บาศกนิยม
• Turkish: kübizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: кубі́зм m (kubízm)
• Vietnamese: lập thể (vi)

Further reading

• cubism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cubisme.

Noun

cubism n (uncountable)

1. cubism

Declension

declension of cubism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cubism	cubismul
genitive/dative	(unui) cubism	cubismului
vocative	cubismule