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  • noun Plural form of cubist.

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Examples

  • The pages that follow are filled with legendary men, the surrealists and cubists and dadaists who shaped bohemian Paris, all of them presented here fighting and eating and jostling to make a living, as well as making love, just like Kiki herself.

    Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

  • The face has the mark of the mature Chagall, while the rest of the painting belongs to the world of what he called "the arrogant cubists" with "their square pears on their triangular tables."

    Chagall Through the Eyes of Paris 2011

  • The cubists were aware of this, and tried to represent "true" reality in their paintings - the reality of motion and change - by painting in glances, fragments, the bits seen in all those quick takes of the world we look at.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • The cubists were aware of this, and tried to represent "true" reality in their paintings - the reality of motion and change - by painting in glances, fragments, the bits seen in all those quick takes of the world we look at.

    Borges: Pathways of the (Postmodern) Mind Heather McDougal 2009

  • From the cubists he incorporated a perception of multiple perspectives and from the fauvists a new way of perceiving color and the free treatment of form.

    Rufino Tamayo 2007

  • From the cubists he incorporated a perception of multiple perspectives and from the fauvists a new way of perceiving color and the free treatment of form.

    Rufino Tamayo 2007

  • A host of artists, including Georges Braque and Andre Derain, defected from the fauves to the cubists.

    Friendship And Rivalry 2007

  • During that same time in art history, however, you had the impressionists, the post-impressionists, the cubists, the orphic (abstract) cubists, the abstract branch of the surrealists, the abstract expressionists, the color-field painters, the minimalists and the beginnings of the postminimalists and conceptual art.

    The 'Greatest' Cliche 2007

  • But at least I lived a life seeing all sides at once, like the cubists did.

    purple mountains majesty 2006

  • But at least I lived a life seeing all sides at once, like the cubists did.

    magna comes loudly 2006

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