Cubism

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  • 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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  • noun. A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below).
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  • noun. An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
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  • noun. an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
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    "And yet, though cubism is more like how we actually use our eyes to look at things, it can present a rather nightmare vision of the world."
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