How to Use cubism in a Sentence

cubism

noun
  • His paintings have rich colors and sharp geometry, Carter's own brand of cubism.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 22 July 2017
  • Kurt Schwitters was a pioneer in collage, which was also a factor in cubism.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Akin to cubism, the style dissects familiar objects into geometric forms and planes.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Also, the lamp has been turned into a miniature homage to cubism (and its lampshade is hovering in the air, not resting on anything).
    — Benjamin Lima, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The front lapel of a square monochrome jacket was cut to evoke Cubism — the side of a guitar, alongside a panel featuring a musical score.
    — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2017
  • It was put together by Brazilian artist Romero Britto, who uses bright colors and elements of cubism in his works.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2023
  • Other paintings are much looser, verging on cubism or featuring meaty flesh rendered in the manner of Francis Bacon.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
  • As his condition deteriorates, the artist begins to see the world through a lens of cubism, surrealism and impressionism.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 30 Jan. 2020
  • At moments of high emotion, her partitioning becomes disjointed and expressive, a robot cubism.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Artistic movements like impressionism, cubism, and naturalism reflected a growing distrust of the eye’s ability to see and know the world.
    — Allain Daigle, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
  • The Singer Laren's collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
  • America’s great indigenous art had evolved from the exuberant transgressions of the 1920s to the danceable rhythms of the swing era to the prickly cubism of bebop.
    — James Kaplan, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The Singer Laren’s collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism, and cubism.
    — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • But the bigger part is Lawrence’s sense of pictorial rhythm — his own, wholly original adaptation of Picasso’s and Braque’s cubism.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Orchard’s style of cubism evokes the work of Pablo Picasso, but her vivid colors recall the effervescence of Henri Matisse’s canvases.
    — Carolyn Twersky, The Cut, 7 Feb. 2018
  • His art is often divided into stages — the Blue Period, the Rose Period, cubism and neoclassical period, to name a few.
    — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2022
  • This year, the museum is drawing on that gift as well as many significant loans to propose a new way of looking at cubism, which many consider the most radically transformative 20th-century art movement.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • This exhibit continues her exploration of racial stereotypes and social issues, drawing from historical movements like cubism and the Harlem Renaissance.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Analysis shows Picasso progressed from using various African techniques, such as reversing concave and convex lines in a face or figure, to a reduction of figures to geometric shapes that led directly to cubism.
    — Ciku Kimeria, Quartz Africa, 3 May 2020
  • While her contemporaries embraced cubism, Dadaism, and abstraction, Beaux remained an Impressionist figurative painter.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And no, in 1906, Picasso hadn’t yet invented (with Georges Braque) the revolutionary pictorial language known as cubism.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Lots has happened since Rodin’s day, from cubism to Dada, abstract expressionism, and conceptual art to our time, when there’s something of an Old Master revival augmented by huge changes in the technology of art.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Although the exhibition excluded historical styles, folk art—along with a range of other references such as exoticism, cubism, French neoclassicism and machinery—was incorporated into many projects.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025
  • The museum houses the collection of American couple William and Anna Singer, with a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Like Picasso, Picabia was associated with cubism, an early 20th-century art movement that was all about deconstructing objects into their constituent lines and curves and then putting them back together in a slightly different way.
    — Bill Morris, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Other styles include conceptual, gothic, pop art, surrealism, art deco, contemporary, impressionism, realism, art nouveau, cubism, renaissance, baroque, fauvism, and modern.
    — Terri Williams, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Frankenthaler came onto the scene as part of a second generation of American abstract expressionists who had rejected traditional European painting styles and techniques along with the more recent developments of cubism and surrealism.
    — Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Marina Picasso and her son, Florian Picasso, who live in Geneva, hope to introduce their ancestor — one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a pioneer of cubism — to the crypto trend sweeping the art world.
    — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022

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