cubist
Angular art practitioner
A cubist is an artist who works in the style of Cubism, the early twentieth-century movement that fragmented objects into geometric planes and depicted multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
The term also functions as an adjective describing this style: cubist paintings, a cubist approach to portraiture. (Capitalized Cubist emphasizes the formal movement.)
Sharp-edged or rawboned
- fracturedSplit or splintered
- abstractedLost in thought
- nonrepresentationalNot depicting reality
- distortedMisshapen from original form
stylized · ambiguous · multifaceted · deconstructed · asymmetrical · disjointed · reconstituted · prismatic
Breaking into smaller pieces
- facetingCutting angled surfaces
- simultaneityState of coexisting temporally
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
angular
Sharp-edged or rawboned
- fracturedSplit or splintered
- abstractedLost in thought
- nonrepresentationalNot depicting reality
distorted · stylized · ambiguous · multifaceted · deconstructed · asymmetrical · disjointed · reconstituted · prismatic · intersecting
fragmentation
Breaking into smaller pieces
- facetingCutting angled surfaces
- simultaneityState of coexisting temporally
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, realism, pop art, minimalism
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- art adjectivesbold, bright, colorful, dark, delicate
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- stylesclassical, romantic, modernist, minimalist, expressionist
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
cubistrealist
One accepting hard truths
naturalist · photorealist · representational · figurative · illusionistic
cubistacademic
Relating to education or theory
Pre-Raphaelite · Renaissance · impressionist · Baroque · neoclassical
- cubic yardsVolume in three-foot cubes
- cubic metresVolume measurement units
- cubic centimetresMetric volume units
- cubic centimetersMetric volume measurement units
- cubic footUnit measuring enclosed space
- cubic feetVolume measurement in imperial