cubist

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But if several works on display at Ayyam were singular and beautiful, there is much about Syrian art in general al that's still derivative, as if artists are working their way through various borrowed styles -- cubist, sychomist, abstract expressionist -- to see which ones fit.

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  • Drunk enough that the room appeared to shift about, like sub-reality tectonic plates, or a cubist painting that tries to show mundane objects from multiple and simultaneous angles, images overlapping. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • Most people huddle close to the hub, for comfort and warmth and low latency: posthumans are gregarious Beneath Sirhan's feet the lily pad city is extending itself, mumbling and churning in endless self-similar loops like a cubist blastoma growing in the upper atmosphere of Saturn. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • S The various styles of: German fin-de-siecle, Japanese woodblock, symbolist and, cubist were seen in his photographs. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But if several works on display at Ayyam were singular and beautiful, there is much about Syrian art in general al that's still derivative, as if artists are working their way through various borrowed styles -- cubist, sychomist, abstract expressionist -- to see which ones fit. —  One Thousand Reasons
  • Cin�math�que Fran�aise will open the doors to its new home, "a cartoon-cubist castle, designed by Frank Gehry, with four screens," writes The Constant Gardener: "The decision to film this novel is not insignificant." —  GreenCine Daily
 

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