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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. often capitalized An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Painting) A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

Etymologies

  1. 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. (Wiktionary)

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