cubism

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He was the hitchhiker in a work of art called "The Steering Wheel," using cubism, which is a number of pictures that make up a total unit of a picture.

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  1. noun A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.

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  • That this was again coming into its own, Mother Francis was not aware, Mrs. Bradley concluded; this for the simple reason that she did not realise that it had ever given place to the impressionistic school, cubism, post-impressionism, or the erotic iniquity of surrealism. —  St. Peter’s Finger - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 09: 1938
  • This St. Louis-based artist's retrospective appears like a survey of key period paintings from a distinct but elusive moment in aesthetic history, one that falls somewhere amid cubism, art deco, pop art and mid-century murals. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • So as poster artists were able to develop and apply a kind of stylistic shorthand version of big, painterly ideas like cubism or collage, artists from Picasso to Warhol appropriated, in some ways, the seductive, declarative graphic layouts of commercial art. —  PopMatters
  • In the early 1900s, cubism was the avant-garde movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. —  Automotive News Blog at CARandDRIVER.com - Car News Resource
  • The project was named after a famous artist that brought us cubism and true to its name, the project looked like a cubism painting: you kinda know what it is but you know the parts were either distorted or all in the wrong place. —  The IT Skeptic - Comments
 

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