cubism

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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. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term. See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos)).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Arabic: تَكْعِيبِيَّة (takʕībiyya) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Armenian: կուբիզմ (kubizm) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Asturian: cubismu — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Bulgarian: куби́зъм (kubízǎm) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Catalan: cubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Chinese Mandarin: 立體主義 /立体主义 (lìtǐzhǔyì) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Czech: kubismus — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Danish: kubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Dutch: kubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Esperanto: kubismo — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Estonian: kubism — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Finnish: kubismi — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• French: cubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Galician: cubismo — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Georgian: კუბიზმი (ḳubizmi) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• German: Kubismus — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Greek: κυβισμός (kyvismós) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Hebrew: קוביזם (qubizm) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Hungarian: kubizmus — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Ido: kubismo — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Irish: ciúbachas — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Italian: cubismo — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Japanese: キュビズム (kyubizumu) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Japanese: キュービズム (kyūbizumu) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Japanese: キュビスム (kyubisumu) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Japanese: 立体派 (rittaiha) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Kazakh: кубшылдық (kubşyldyq) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Korean: 입체파 (ipchepa) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Korean: 큐비즘 (kyubijeum) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Latin: cubismus — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Macedonian: кубизам (kubizam) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Māori: toi matahuhua — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Norwegian Bokmål: kubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kubisme — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Polish: kubizm — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Portuguese: cubismo — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Romanian: cubism — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Russian: куби́зм (kubízm) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Serbo-Croatian: кубизам — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Serbo-Croatian: kubizam — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Slovak: kubizmus — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Slovene: kubizem — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Spanish: cubismo — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Swedish: kubism — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Tamil: கியூபிசம் (kiyūpicam) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Thai: บาศกนิยม — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Turkish: kübizm — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Ukrainian: кубі́зм (kubízm) — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes
• Vietnamese: lập thể — An artistic movement characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes