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cubism
has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)For it had turned_out , by a further paradox of Cubism , that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging . Cubism , in its 1911 - 1912 phase ( which the_French , with justice , call `` hermetic '' ) was on the verge of abstract_art . But the inner , formal_logic of Cubism , as it worked itself out through the collage , had just as much to do with shaping their decision . Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . This he did by using utterly literal means to carry the forward push of the collage ( and of Cubism in_general ) literally into the literal space in_front of the picture_plane . Related terms |
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